![]() ![]() Her paramour is Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), a 22-year-old budding sculptor whom she has known since childhood. Nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) narrates much of the film. Beale Street is our legacy.” Both the seriousness of the work and its accommodation to racial exclusivity are already indicated. The film opens with a quote from Baldwin (1924-1987): “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, born in the black neighborhood of some American city, whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York. Jenkins’ movie is sensitively and thoughtfully done, but almost inevitably reflects some of the problems of the identity politics-obsessed age. The film centers on the love between two African American youth, one of whom faces a police frame-up, in New York City’s Harlem and takes place during the 1970s. If Beale Street Could Talk, directed and written by Barry Jenkins ( Moonlight), is based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same title. ![]() Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the novel by James Baldwin ![]()
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