Barry Jenkins describes his latest feature as a series of “memories, dreams and nightmares”. Adapted from James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name, If Beale Street Could Talk follows two young lovers, Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) and Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), through moments of their childhood and young adult lives. Just as the pair begin to understand what love truly is, they are forced to come to terms with the brutal reality of hate; Fonny is wrongfully imprisoned, stolen away from the person he cares for the most. Told from the perspective of Tish, the book speaks of her inner anxieties and emotions, complexities which Jenkins perfectly portrays on the screen...
