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Chiron removes gold grills from his upper and lower teeth. “Rather than shooting it in a very realistic way, at 24 frames per second, we shot it in slow-motion,” says Jenkins. The scene isn ...
“Moonlight” is one of the season’s most-talked-about films. It won the Golden Globe for Best Picture-Drama, ... And there’s another scene, in which Chiron learns who he is.
There is a scene in Moonlight in which a small boy is taught by an older companion to float, and then swim, in the dazzling brim of the Miami shore. Both are black; the boy is Chiron, the youngest ...
Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” is another American indie coming-of-age film, but with a big difference. This one is about a poor black boy named Chiron (pronounced “Shy-rone”), who lives in ...
There’s a moment in “Moonlight,” a gay black man’s coming-of-age story, when the protagonist, Chiron, is sitting in the principal’s office after being beat up by some of his classmates.
So many of this film’s most important scenes take place under the moon, particularly the climax. While so many movies of the so-called “hood genre” end with someone getting shot, “Moonlight” ends with ...
We’re both inside Chiron’s head and far away from him, knowing him only as far as he lets himself be known. Every scene, every frame is important. I could point to any one shot and call it equally the ...
Before “Moonlight” even begins, Boris Gardiner’s “Every Nigger Is A Star” plays over production company logos, immediately telegraphing the uniquely black narrative ab… ...
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins discussed his Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday by dissecting a swimming lesson scene early on in the film.
Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike behavior that carries into his adulthood. “There are these sort of lonely frames that exist, even when he’s a grown man.
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