Medicine for Melancholy (2009)
Directed by Barry Jenkins
Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.
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What critics compared Medicine for Melancholy to
This is the second film directed by Barry Jenkins, whose one previous movie (called Medicine for Melancholy) I haven’t seen.
A natural extension of his garrulous San Francisco-set debut, “Medicine for Melancholy,” the director’s beautifully nuanced, subtext-rich second feature is no less intellectually engaged, but proves far more trusting in audiences’ ability to read between the lines.
Writer/director Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy") sensitively examines the maturation of one black youth struggling with his identity and those who shaped him.
Moonlight is directed by Barry Jenkins, whose only previous film was 2008's Medicine For Melancholy.
As demonstrated in Jenkins’ first feature, 2008’s winning, morning-after-a-one-night-stand comedy Medicine For Melancholy, he’s got a knack for letting his characters talk their way around one other’s defense mechanisms and insecurities.
This story of growing up poor, black and gay in Miami was adapted by director Barry Jenkins (“Medicine for Melancholy”) from a play by Tarell McCraney; both grew up in Miami’s Liberty City projects, where much of this film was shot.