If Beale Street Could Talk
Year: 2018
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Stephan James & Regina King
Runtime: 119 mins
BBFC: 15
Published: 26/02/19
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Stephan James & Regina King
Runtime: 119 mins
BBFC: 15
Published: 26/02/19
If Beale Street Could Talk is a thought provoking and emotionally engaging film with some fantastic performances from its cast. That’s about where the buck stops. It treads no new ground on the genre that in recent years has been increasingly crowded. It retells a story we’ve all heard and seen a million times before. The end result is a film certainly worthy of praise in its quality of delivery, but I would argue it is overhyped. Films such as Spike Lee’s BlackkKlansman did more to stand out from the crowd yet still deliver high quality in films that deal with matters of race and equality in the mid-twentieth century.
It is absolutely a story that should be told and that people should pay attention to in this day and age, but it does little to really set itself apart from its contemporaries.
It is absolutely a story that should be told and that people should pay attention to in this day and age, but it does little to really set itself apart from its contemporaries.