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| Nelson_Mandela 06/20/19 12:44:45 PM #431: | #84. Moonlight https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Moonlight_%282016_film%29.png Dir: Barry Jenkins Genre: Drama, Coming of Age Year: 2016 Moonlight is a gorgeous film. I am only guessing at to what Barry Jenkins' influences were, but it really feels like two parts of the best of French New Wave mixed some Terence Malick and ambient dreamscape cinematography that has been en vogue throughout the 2010s. If you wanted a prime example of top-tier style and substance of this decade, look no further. I fully expected the hackneyed and self-[ironic censor bypass]aggrandizing La La Land to win Best Picture of 2016 despite the fact that Moonlight was clearly something special. So when Moonlight (eventually) won, I was very pleased yet oddly angry at the same time. Barry Jenkins's direction here was stuff of legends but he still somehow was not recognized for it. Hopefully history will be kind to him and people will start to realize that this was a seminal film for this new generation of filmmakers. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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