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KiKi Layne and Stephan James in "Si Beale Street Could Talk" by Barry Jenkins, presented at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). Mars Films
It's one of the most anticipated films of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where Barry Jenkins' Oscars: "If Beale Street Could Talk" is played. Two years ago, the filmmaker, born in 1979 in Miami, made a splash in Toronto with his first feature film, "Moonlight", the story of a young homosexual African-American in Miami.
The 38-year-old American director Barry Jenkins returns this year to the festival with a movie set in New York in the 1970s, Si Beale Street could speak . Tish and Fonny love each other passionately, but their story is broken in mid-flight when the boy is unjustly accused of rape by a young white woman.
An adaptation of a novel by James Baldwin
It is the voice of Tish, of his companion, who guides us in the film. The multiple flashbacks that revive the past and its happy days are only there to better convey the tragedy of the present. It is understandable that by adapting this novel by James Baldwin, Barry Jenkins wanted to give the African-American community the great melodrama that he lacked.
The complaint of the black man
His film is interspersed with archive photos of the 1920s and 1930s showing African Americans chained, molested, handcuffed. These are broken lives, echoing pains, as if to make us hear cotton fields in New York's prisons, the eternal complaint of the black man.