10/31/2022 0 Comments Moonlight film![]() ![]() If the second act ends by bringing the house down - you’ll excuse the stage metaphor since Moonlight was inspired by a play - the third wisely doesn’t attempt to top it or rebuild. No longer “little,” Chiron is now a lanky, introverted young man (Ashton Sanders) whose eyes continue to scan the rooms he’s forced to inhabit, aware that he’s perpetually trapped within them: boys at school taunt him, his mother continues to lash out at their shared home, and that last safe haven of his, Juan’s apartment, is now devoid of his comforting presence. If the film’s first third mingles wily innocence with the hardened edge of Miami’s Liberty City, its middle section bristles with adolescent aggression. This is where Little’s story stuns, every interaction comes with a jolt of recognition. That cruelty is opposition to the tenderness Ali as Juan provides, and what gay boy hasn’t felt both as people around them start to become aware of their sexuality, sometimes before they do. Harris is ferocious and revelatory, making clear from the beginning that the love Paula has for her son is mixed with cruelty, as if she thinks he deserves the bullying he gets for being gay. In the first part we see him isolated and terrorized at school, with his mother Paula (Naomie Harris), playing with his only friend Kevin (Jaden Piner) and meeting mentor Juan (Mahershala Ali) who will loom large in his life. ![]() He's played as a 9 year old by the extraordinarily introspective yet expressive Alex Hibbert. The languid melancholic tone fits the inner monologue of the main character Chiron (who is called "Little" in this first of three segments), who is struggling to understand himself. Barry Jenkins takes Tarell McCraney’s unproduced play "In Moonlight Black Boys Boys Look Blue" and paints it on screen, using his actors’ faces and bodies to deliver singular poetic images. ![]() The economy of the scenes mixed with the patience in storytelling means that every gesture and word counts. Long beautifully rendered scenes provide us pivotal snippets of days in a life. #Moonlight film movie#Moonlight is a patient movie that takes its time to give us a full portrait of what goes on in a young man’s mind. Since Barry Jenkins' new film Moonlight is told in triptych style, we've opted to bring you our NYFF review in the same way with three of us writing it! - Editor ![]()
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