A disarming and tender triptych, fluent in the language of wordless emotion.
With beautifully pitched performances, a moving story and a willingness to trade showy for subtle, Moonlight deserves all the attention and awards nominations it’s getting.
Sensitive, subtle and heartfelt, Jenkins’ genre-buster is a significant work that will knock you out.
What makes Moonlight distinctive is its offbeat quality and ability always to wrong-foot the viewer.
A gay man’s journey from a deprived childhood through rage and towards self-realisation is a moving, mysterious dance to the music of time.
An intense, emotional film with tenderness in every frame.
A genre-defying film. Its visual splendour belies its tough, surface-level subject matter, while the performances pull us deep below that surface with their soulful naturalism.
Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated coming-of-age film is a heartbreaking, uplifting, minor-key masterpiece.
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Moonlight's Barry Jenkins interview: 'This was so personal for me'.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday February 10, 2017, until Wednesday February 15, 2017. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee from Friday February 24, 2017, until Thursday March 9, 2017. More info: www.dca.org.uk
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