In a scene that could have been so much darker ... “It evolved when the character is also evolving,” says Laxton. Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...

Mahershala Ali squeezed in his scenes as Little's father ... patient filmmaking, building Chiron's sense of isolation so effectively that by the time Moonlight reaches its intimate penultimate ...