If Beale Street Could Talk

6.8
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Directed by: Barry Jenkins
Overview
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Reviews (2)
Stephen Campbell (Rated: 6)
Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid
Studs Terkel: Did you feel a sense of shame about a heritage that is really so rich_, when you accepted the white man's stereotype of yourself?_
James Baldwin: I'm afraid that is one of the great dilemmas, one of the great _psych...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to develop the characterisations, ...
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