It follows 16-year-old athlete Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) as she stays with her novelist aunt, Miranda (Rebecca Spence), in Chicago one summer. In using a scissoring shot so absurd it rivals the one in “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” Park proves himself a master of high camp.Ĭhicago-based filmmaker Stephen Cone’s understated film is a beautiful portrait of a motherless teen’s search for identity. Between the gorgeous music, costumes, sets, and cinematography, watching it on the big screen is like immersing your senses in a warm bubble-bath massage, happy ending included. Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel “Fingersmith” was one of the most visually stunning and titillating films of 2016. Image Credit: Magnolia Pictures/Amazon Studios Perhaps his greatest achievement is how poignantly he renders Chiron’s struggle with identity as though it were his own - the diner scene with André Holland and Trevante Rhodes is a case study in seduction by jukebox. Jenkins revisits his own Miami childhood through the lens of queerness, though he himself is straight. Though nothing compares to seeing Barry Jenkins’ Oscar winner on the big screen, there are so many layers to his filmmaking that “Moonlight” merits as many revisits as your heart can take.
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