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Film · 2016 · Drama

Moonlight

Name: Moonlight
Director: Barry Jenkins
Genre: Drama, Coming of age
Released: 2016

Directed by Barry Jenkins

2016

★ 8.4 editorial score

One life told in three chapters by three different actors, and shot in blues and purples so tender the film almost hums: nothing about it looks like anything else.

Genre

Drama Coming of age

Subject

Sexuality Masculinity First love Growing up

Setting

Miami American South

Time

2016

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