Moonlight
Going from childhood, to teenagehood, to adulthood, this winner of Best Drama at the Golden Globes follows an African-American man trying to understand himself and his sense of love in Miami's poorer district - a hard-skinned place that wants to predefine him.
- Director:
- Barry Jenkins ('Medicine for Melancholy')
- Writer:
- Barry Jenkins
- Cast:
- Trevante RhodesAndré HollandJanelle MonaeAshton SandersJharrel JeromeNaomie HarrisMahershala AliAlex Hibbert
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksThe ability to evoke empathy and compassion from sound and images is a magic reserved for only great films. This is all Moonlight wants, and with the precision of a cinematic diamond cutter, filmmaker Barry Jenkins has crafted a great three-chapter chronicle of a soft-spoken black man named Chiron whose true self is constantly denied by the environment that engulfs him. The feeling is universal, and it was enough to turn this white-skinned, hetero, middle-class Irish Māori into a punctured bagpipe of wheezing emotion.
Critics make black boys look gold
So it's definitely a masterpiece. Very interesting use of colour and non diegetic sound which create a really interesting mood and help us feel things with the character, really immersing us in the film. Certainly worthy of all its praise though won't interest people who aren't fans of the genre.
A unique and masterful display of one finding euphoria in an uncaring world.
Moonlight is what Hollywood needs right now, a beautifully written film that's filmed in a unique but immersive style, and has real characters rather than cookie-cutter characters. It's the perfect blend of raw emotion and euphoria that unites a cast where everyone shines. A film that I will never forget. Masterpiece, masterpiece, masterpiece.
Time Out
pressThis film is, without a doubt, the reason we go to the movies: to understand, to come closer, to ache, hopefully with another.
The Telegraph
pressA nuclear-fission-strength heartbreaker. It’s made up of moments so slight and incidental they’re sub-molecular – but they release enough heat and light to swallow whole cities at a stroke.
The New York Times
pressMoonlight is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces.
The Guardian
pressIt’s a thrilling, deeply necessary work that opens up a much-needed and rarely approached on-screen conversation about the nature of gay masculinity.
Rolling Stone
pressMoonlight, which announces Jenkins as a major filmmaker, gets you good. It stays raw from first scene to last.
New Zealand Herald
pressMoonlight is an essential film and you'd be an idiot to overlook it.
Hollywood Reporter
pressObserves, with uncommon poignancy and emotional perceptiveness, his roughly two-decade path to find a definitive answer to the question, "Who am I?"
Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksThe ability to evoke empathy and compassion from sound and images is a magic reserved for only great films. This is all Moonlight wants, and with the precision of a cinematic diamond cutter, filmmaker Barry Jenkins has crafted a great three-chapter chronicle of a soft-spoken black man named Chiron whose true self is constantly denied by the environment that engulfs him. The feeling is universal, and it was enough to turn this white-skinned, hetero, middle-class Irish Māori into a punctured bagpipe of wheezing emotion.
Time Out
pressThis film is, without a doubt, the reason we go to the movies: to understand, to come closer, to ache, hopefully with another.
The Telegraph
pressA nuclear-fission-strength heartbreaker. It’s made up of moments so slight and incidental they’re sub-molecular – but they release enough heat and light to swallow whole cities at a stroke.
The New York Times
pressMoonlight is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces.
The Guardian
pressIt’s a thrilling, deeply necessary work that opens up a much-needed and rarely approached on-screen conversation about the nature of gay masculinity.
Rolling Stone
pressMoonlight, which announces Jenkins as a major filmmaker, gets you good. It stays raw from first scene to last.
New Zealand Herald
pressMoonlight is an essential film and you'd be an idiot to overlook it.
Hollywood Reporter
pressObserves, with uncommon poignancy and emotional perceptiveness, his roughly two-decade path to find a definitive answer to the question, "Who am I?"
Critics make black boys look gold
So it's definitely a masterpiece. Very interesting use of colour and non diegetic sound which create a really interesting mood and help us feel things with the character, really immersing us in the film. Certainly worthy of all its praise though won't interest people who aren't fans of the genre.
A unique and masterful display of one finding euphoria in an uncaring world.
Moonlight is what Hollywood needs right now, a beautifully written film that's filmed in a unique but immersive style, and has real characters rather than cookie-cutter characters. It's the perfect blend of raw emotion and euphoria that unites a cast where everyone shines. A film that I will never forget. Masterpiece, masterpiece, masterpiece.
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