It might be film’s biggest night of the year but the Oscars have been mired by controversy, scandal and disorder in 2019. After months of speculation, the Academy has finally announced yesterday that its ninety-first ceremony will have no host for the first time in three decades. But how can that work?
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Barry Jenkins follows Moonlight – the sumptuously cinematic coming of age Oscar winner that famously wasn’t La La Land two years ago – with a love story almost equally perfect. Based on the eponymous novel by pioneering novelist James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk boasts gorgeous writing and Jenkins’ now familiar eye for visual lyricism. Frustration and anger weave through his painfully empathetic narrative, which is itself told with a wonderfully fluid approach to time. The casting, meanwhile, is impeccable, with Jenkins once again proving himself to be a raconteur of talent and kingmaker.
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