Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) by Peter Debruge for Variety — 08 Sep 2018
The movie quotes Baldwin as saying, “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street,” but this one may as well be located inside a snow globe. In deciding how to translate Baldwin’s prose to the screen, Jenkins may as well have made Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” as a Douglas Sirk movie (or put Alice Waters’ “The Color Purple” through the Steven Spielberg filter).
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This review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) was written by Peter Debruge and published by Variety on 08 Sep 2018.
If Beale Street Could Talk has generally received positive reviews.
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