
Moonlight
My first question on coming out of Moonlight was: who is Barry Jenkins? Who made this beautiful, completely absorbing, and perfectly cast film about a young man growing up gay and in poverty in Miami? From the get-go the cinematography shows the confusion and instability of the world we’re entering. In the first scene, when local drug dealer Juan (the brilliant Mahershala Ali) checks out how one of his corners is doing, the camera spins wildly round him and his employee as th