Medicine for melancholy / IFC Films presents ; a Strike Anywhere production ; a Bandry film ; produced by Justin Barber ; written and directed by Barry Jenkins.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins.
Summary:
One of the great debut features of the twenty-first century, Barry Jenkins's captivating, lo-fi romance Medicine for Melancholy unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco, where a one-night stand between two young bohemians, Micah and Jo,' spins off into a woozy daylong affair marked by moments of tenderness, friction, joy, and intellectual sparring as they explore their relationships to each other, the city, and their own Blackness. Shooting on desaturated video, Jenkins crafts an intimate exploration of alienation and connection graced with the evocative visual palette and empathetic emotional charge that has come to define his work.
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