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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Synopsis
19-year-old Tish and her sculptor fiancé Fonny live together in poverty-stricken 1970s Harlem. Wrongly accused of raping a woman, Fonny is sent to prison without trial. Not long after, Tish discovers she’s expecting Fonny’s baby. Tish sets out to get Fonny out of jail before the baby’s born.
Synopsis
19-year-old Tish and her sculptor fiancé Fonny live together in poverty-stricken 1970s Harlem. Wrongly accused of raping a woman, Fonny is sent to prison without trial. Not long after, Tish discovers she’s expecting Fonny’s baby. Tish sets out to get Fonny out of jail before the baby’s born.
Our take
How do you follow one of the great Oscar® triumphs of recent memory? Two years after Moonlight took Best Picture, Barry Jenkins returned with this gorgeous adaptation of James Baldwin’s powerful love story. A poetic wonder of political expressionism, If Beale Street Could Talk is a gift of a film.