If Beale Street Could Talk 🌆
Happy Tuesday! Happy 30th Birthday, Katrina, and congratulations to her and my future brother-in-law Mike on their engagement this weekend. In their honor, today’s movie is an all-timer New York romance that I recommended in 2019.
🍿 Today’s movie: If Beale Street Could Talk
Today’s movie is Barry Jenkins’ *ahem* masterpiece If Beale Street Could Talk. The movie was a follow-up to his Oscar-winning also *ahem* masterpiece Moonlight. The movie won Regina King an Oscar — and she’s angling for another this season.
Based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name, If Beale Street Could Talk follows Tish (Kiki Layne) — a young black woman living in 1970s Harlem — as she tries to clear her boyfriend Fonny’s (Stephan James) name of a crime he didn’t commit. Told in a non-linear form, the movie tracks their relationship from its hopeful start through all their highs and lows. [Trailer]