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Photo of James Laxton

James Laxton

“It always feels good to have someone feel like you did a good job, and obviously that makes you feel like you should keep going. But I see your point, on some level: our job is odd, in that you’re not necessarily meant to understand why it works.”

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    MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

    BARRY JENKINS United States, 2008

    More than a calling card for the Oscar®-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ feature debut heralded the arrival of a deeply impassioned vision. A yearning portrait of modern Blackness in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy is a captivatingly authentic tale of hesitant love and urban malaise.

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