Moonlight
Director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney adapted McCraney’s theater piece In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue for this visually evocative and emotionally powerful story of sensitive Chiron coming of age in Miami's violent and homophobic drug culture, which won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar.
Director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney adapted McCraney’s theater piece In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue for this visually evocative and emotionally powerful story of sensitive Chiron coming of age in Miami's violent and homophobic drug culture, which won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar. Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes play the protagonist at three stages of his life, and Mahershala Ali won his first Supporting Actor Oscar for his moving performance as the boy’s unlikely father figure
Director: Barry Jenkins. Cast: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali. 2016. 111 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. DCP.
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