![]() ![]() ![]() Read: How Barry Jenkins turned his James Baldwin obsession into his next movie It is singular in its expression, but it doesn’t stand alone. ![]() Even as they face entrenched discrimination and mounting legal hurdles, the love between the two never wavers. As in the novel, the story follows the 19-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne) as she navigates life following the 22-year-old Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt’s (Stephan James) incarceration on false rape charges. The new Barry Jenkins–directed film adaptation gently renders Baldwin’s expansive, embattled vision of black love. But Tish and her beloved nonetheless find a way to remain entwined. I wanted so to touch him.” For much of the novel, their hands can’t cross the glacial barrier. “His face looked as though it were plunging into water. Tish narrates the story, so the reflection that follows is in her voice. “Alonzo, we’re going to have a baby,” Clementine “Tish” Rivers tells her fiancé from across the cold glass of a New York City jail’s visitation room. If Beale Street Could Talk, the 1974 James Baldwin novel, begins with a bittersweet announcement of new life. ![]()
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