Moonlight

Barry Jenkins · 2016 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A small boy in Liberty City, Miami, is chased into a derelict flat by other children and taken up by the dealer who finds him there, a man who also supplies his mother. Three chapters and three actors follow him through school and into a body he builds so as to be left alone. Best Picture in 2017 and sixtieth in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll, it has become the reference point for American cinema of its decade.

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• influenced by ↑ In the Mood for Love
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