DIR. Barry Jenkins
YEAR. 2016
COUNTRY. US
RUN-TIME. 111 mins
RATING. 15
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7.00PM
Film 7.30PM
Winner of 3 Oscars, and just named the best film of the decade by IndieWire, Moonlight follows Chiron through the tribulations of his youth, his mother’s struggle with drugs, and his own struggle with his sexuality and identity. Barry Jenkins’s drama earnestly indulges in the rarely examined themes of Black masculinity and vulnerability, and the beauty and pain of the Black male gay experience in America through three vignettes tethered together by the passage of time.
“Director Barry Jenkins has created a sublime, novelistic work of art by employing the specific in pursuit of the universal: Few will walk away from “Moonlight” untouched by its message.”
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