![]() Baldwin’s books have been adapted for television and overseas, his vivid and essential representations of African-American life had not been done by an American filmmaker prior to this movie. The novel came out towards the end of the Black Arts Movement which started in 1965 and through art and activism delivered a message of Black pride. He published his novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” in 1974, and it was his first work to focus on a Black couple’s love story – as well as the only one to be narrated by a woman. ![]() ![]() His writing grapples with his place as a black man in the United States, and he details the injustices and the contradictions in American life. James Baldwin – the American writer and activist and one of the most important authors of the last century – explored the racial and sexual divide in our country. This spectacularly lyrical and lush follow up to “Moonlight” – is at times painful but leaves you inebriated with the optimistic pronunciation that love can get you through the most difficult of times. ![]() The couple’s as well as the family’s love that envelops around them is the unifying force that binds them together against the bigotry toward African Americans in 70s Harlem. Trust in it all the way,” says Sharon – the mother of Tish – one of the lovers at the center of “If Beale Street Could Talk” – the transfixing and timeless romance based on the classic novel by James Baldwin and adapted and directed by the Academy Award winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins. ![]()
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