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Title: If Beale Street Could Talk

Original Title: If Beale Street Could Talk

Year: 2018

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: February 08 2019
  • United States: November 30 2018

Plot

Baldwin's novel follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while carrying their first born child. It's a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families, and their lives.

In author's own words, the film explain how "all black people in America were born in Beale Street", concerning the problems they found because of their skin tone.

The film, wrote and directed by Barry Jenkins, is a celebration about incondicional love of a young couple, their family and the dispute that start around them meanwhile they try to follow american dream

Awards

  • 2019 Academy Awards (Oscars): 3 1
  • 2019 Golden Globes: 3 1
  • 2019 BAFTA Awards: 2 0

Cast

Director:

Barry Jenkins Barry Jenkins

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Trivia

Motive of the title

Both film and novel's title make reference to the blues composed by W. C. Handy called 'Beale Street Blues' in 1917. Beale Street is in Memphis and the zone was the center of afroamerican music in there moment.

The personal story of the director

Barry Jenkins don't hesitate to admit the relation between the films 'If Beale Street Could Talks' and 'Moonlight'. Besides of being two love story between black people, 'Moonlight' talks about the family that Jenkins have and 'If Beale Street Could Talks' represents the family that he would have liked to have.

A comitted author

James Baldwin is one of the best authors to portray afroamerican's life in United States. From his novel 'Remember This House', the director Raoul Peck was nominated to the Oscar for this short movie 'I Am Not Your Negro' (2016).

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