2016 American film by Barry Jenkins
Moonlight
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Directed by
| Barry Jenkins
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Screenplay by
| Barry Jenkins
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Story by
| Tarell Alvin McCraney
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Produced by
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Starring
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Cinematography
| James Laxton
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Edited by
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Music by
| Nicholas Britell
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Distributed by
| A24
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Release dates
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- September 2, 2016
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2016-09-02
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(
Telluride
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- October 21, 2016
(
2016-10-21
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(United States)
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Running time
| 111 minutes
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $1.5 million
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Box office
| $65.2 million
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Moonlight
is a 2016 American
coming-of-age
drama film
written and directed by
Barry Jenkins
, based on
Tarell Alvin McCraney
's unpublished semi-autobiographical play
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue
. It stars
Trevante Rhodes
,
Mahershala Ali
,
Naomie Harris
,
Ashton Sanders
,
Jharrel Jerome
,
Janelle Monae
, and
Andre Holland
.
The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. It explores the difficulties he faces with his
sexuality
and identity, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up.
[4]
Filmed in
Miami
,
Florida
, beginning in 2015,
Moonlight
premiered at the
Telluride Film Festival
on September 2, 2016. It was released in the United States on October 21, 2016, by
A24
, receiving critical acclaim with praise towards its editing, cinematography, score, Jenkins's direction and screenplay, and handling of the themes of sexuality and masculinity. The performances of Harris and Ali also received widespread acclaim. It grossed over $65 million worldwide.
Moonlight
has been cited as one of the
best films
of the 21st century.
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
The film won the
Academy Award for Best Picture
, along with
Best Supporting Actor
for Ali and
Best Adapted Screenplay
for Jenkins and McCraney from a total of eight nominations, at the
89th Academy Awards
. It was released as the first LGBTQ-themed mass-marketed feature film with an all-black cast and was, at the time of its release, the second-lowest-grossing film domestically (behind
The Hurt Locker
) to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
[10]
[11]
[12]
Joi McMillon
became the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar, and Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar.
[13]
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Plot
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I. Little
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In
Liberty City
, Miami at the height of the
crack epidemic
,
Afro-Cuban
drug dealer Juan finds Chiron, a withdrawn child who goes by the nickname "Little", hiding from a group of bullies in a
crackhouse
. Juan lets Chiron spend the night with him and his girlfriend Teresa before returning Chiron to his mother Paula. Chiron continues to spend time with Juan, who begins to teach him the basics of life, from which he believes Chiron can benefit.
One night, Juan encounters Paula smoking
crack
with one of his customers. Juan berates her for being addicted and for neglecting her son, but she rebukes him for selling crack to her in the first place; all the while, they argue over Chiron's upbringing. She implies that she knows why Chiron gets tormented by his peers, alluding to "the way he walks" before going home and taking out her frustration on Chiron.
The next day, Chiron admits to Juan and Teresa that he hates his mother and asks what a "
faggot
" is. Juan tells him it is "a word used to make gay people feel bad." He tells Chiron there is nothing wrong with being gay and that he should not allow others to mock him. Chiron then asks Juan whether he sells drugs and whether his mother does drugs. After Juan remorsefully answers yes to both questions, Chiron leaves as Juan hangs his head in shame.
II. Chiron
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Now a teenager, Chiron balances avoiding school bully, Terrel and spending time with Teresa, who has lived alone since Juan's death. Paula, who has turned to
prostitution
due to her worsening addiction, forces Chiron to give her the money he receives from Teresa. Chiron's childhood friend Kevin tells him about a detention he received for being caught having sex with a girl in a school stairwell. Chiron later dreams about Kevin and the girl having sex in Teresa's backyard, waking with a start. One night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. While smoking a
blunt
together, the two discuss their ambitions and the nickname Kevin gave Chiron when they were children. They kiss, and Kevin gives Chiron a
handjob
.
The next morning, Terrel manipulates Kevin into participating in a
hazing
ritual. Kevin reluctantly punches Chiron until he cannot stand, watching as Terrel and other boys savagely attack him. When the principal urges him to reveal his attackers' identities, Chiron refuses, saying that reporting them will not solve anything. The next day, an enraged Chiron walks into class and smashes a chair over Terrel's head before being restrained by classmates and a teacher. Chiron is arrested and leaves the school in a police cruiser while Kevin watches.
III. Black
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A year and decade later, now going by the nickname "Black", an adult Chiron deals drugs in
Atlanta
. He receives frequent calls from Paula, who asks him to visit her at the drug treatment center where she is living. One morning, Kevin calls and invites him to see him should he ever come to Miami. While visiting Paula, Chiron breaks his silence. His mother apologizes for not loving him when he needed it most and tells him she loves him even if he does not love her back. The two tearfully reconcile before Paula lets Chiron go.
Chiron travels to Miami and visits Kevin at his workplace, a diner. When his attempts to probe Chiron about his life result in silence, Kevin tells him he has had a child with an ex-girlfriend and, although the relationship ended, he is fulfilled by his role as a father. Chiron reciprocates by talking about his unexpected drug dealing and asks Kevin why he called. Kevin plays "
Hello Stranger
" by
Barbara Lewis
on the jukebox, the song that made him think of Chiron.
After Kevin serves his friend Chiron dinner, the two of them go to his apartment. Kevin tells Chiron that, although his life did not turn out as he had hoped, he is happy, resulting in Chiron breaking down and admitting that he has not been intimate with anybody since their encounter years ago. As Kevin comforts him, Chiron remembers himself as Little, standing on a beach in the moonlight.
Cast
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- Chiron (
shy-
ROHN
), the film's protagonist
- Kevin, Chiron's romantic interest
- Naomie Harris
as Paula, Chiron's drug addict mother
- Mahershala Ali
as Juan, a drug dealer who becomes a father figure to Chiron
- Janelle Monae
as Teresa, Juan's girlfriend
- Patrick Decile as Terrel, a school bully
Production
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Development
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In 2003, Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote the semi-autobiographical play
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue
to cope with his mother's death from
AIDS
. The theater piece was shelved for about a decade before it served as the basis for
Moonlight
.
[15]
After the release of his debut feature film
Medicine for Melancholy
in 2008,
Barry Jenkins
wrote various screenplays, none of which entered production.
[16]
In January 2013, producer
Adele Romanski
urged Jenkins to make a second film.
[17]
The two brainstormed a few times a month through video-chat, with the goal of producing a low-budget "cinematic and personal" film.
[16]
Jenkins was introduced to McCraney's play through the
Borscht
arts collective in Miami.
[18]
After discussions with McCraney, Jenkins wrote the first draft of the film in a month-long visit to
Brussels
.
[16]
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Although the original play contained three parts, they ran simultaneously so that the audience would experience a day in the life of Little, Chiron and Black concurrently.
[19]
In fact, it is not made clear that the characters are the same person until halfway through the play.
[20]
Jenkins instead chose to split the three parts of the original piece into distinct chapters and to focus on Chiron's story from the perspective of an
ally
.
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The result was a screenplay that reflected the similar upbringings of Jenkins and McCraney. The character Juan was based on the father of McCraney's half-brother, who was also a childhood "defender" of McCraney, as Juan was for Chiron.
[22]
Likewise, Paula was a depiction of Jenkins' and McCraney's mothers, who both were drug addicts. McCraney and Jenkins also both grew up in Miami's
Liberty Square
, a primary location of the film.
[17]
Jenkins looked for financing for the film during 2013, finding success after showing the script to the executives of
Plan B Entertainment
at the year's
Telluride Film Festival
.
Dede Gardner
and
Jeremy Kleiner
of Plan B Entertainment became producers of the film,
[16]
while
A24
undertook to finance it and handle worldwide distribution, which marked the company's first production.
[23]
Casting
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Different actors portrayed Chiron and Kevin in each chapter of the film.
Ashton Sanders
was cast in the role of teen Chiron.
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Alex Hibbert and Jaden Piner were cast for the roles of child Chiron and child Kevin, respectively, in an open casting call in Miami.
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Trevante Rhodes
originally auditioned for the role of Kevin, before he was cast as adult Chiron.
[27]
Andre Holland
had previously acted in McCraney's plays, and had read
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue
a decade before the release of the film.
[28]
Holland was attracted to the role of adult Kevin when later reading the script of the film, stating, "[The script] was the best thing I've ever read".
[29]
Naomie Harris
was initially reluctant to portray Paula, stating that she did not want to play a stereotypical depiction of a black woman.
[30]
When addressing her concerns, Jenkins emphasized the character's representation of both his and McCraney's mothers.
[28]
Harris later commented that although she had previously vowed not to portray a crack addict, the film's script and director's tolerance appealed to her.
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In preparation for her role, Harris watched interviews of those with addiction to crack cocaine, and met with addicted women. She related her experiences of bullying to the addicts' attempts of escaping trauma.
[30]
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Romanski proposed Juan be played by
Mahershala Ali
, who had a role in one of her previously produced films,
Kicks
. Jenkins was hesitant when casting Ali due to his role as Remy Danton in
House of Cards
; however, he was convinced after witnessing Ali's acting range and understanding of his character.
[32]
Ali considered the role an important opportunity to portray an African-American male mentor,
[33]
and drew on his experiences of "[growing] up with a Juan".
[32]
Janelle Monae
was sent the script and immediately connected to her role as Teresa, commenting that she too had family members with similar struggles relating to drugs and
sexual identity
.
[16]
Filming
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Filming began on October 14, 2015, in
Miami
,
Florida
.
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Despite Florida not having tax incentives for film productions,
Moonlight
was able to shoot in Florida at the insistence of the film's creative team and with support from its financiers. Had the production relocated to a different state with legislative incentives, the film's budget may have provided more resources by as much as up to 30%. The decision to film in Florida was made to maintain authenticity as a Florida based story.
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After scouting for locations in Miami with Romanski,
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Jenkins made an effort to film in locations where he previously lived.
Liberty Square
, a housing project located in the neighborhood of
Liberty City
, was chosen as one of the primary locations as both McCraney and Jenkins grew up in the area.
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The film was shot undisturbed since Jenkins had relatives living in the area,
[21]
though the cast and crew had police escorts.
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Naomie Harris later reflected:
It was the first time someone had come to their community and wanted to represent it onscreen, and since Barry Jenkins had grown up in that area, there was this sense of pride and this desire to support him. You felt this love from the community that I've never felt in any other location, anywhere in the world, and it was so strange that it happened in a place where people were expecting the complete opposite.
[31]
During filming, Jenkins made sure that the three actors for Chiron did not meet each other until after filming to avoid any imitations of one another.
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Consequently, Rhodes, Sanders, and Hibbert filmed in separate two-week periods.
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Mahershala Ali frequently flew to Miami on consecutive weekends to film during the production of other projects.
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Naomie Harris shot all of her scenes in three days without rehearsals,
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while Andre Holland filmed the totality of his scenes in five.
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The film was shot in a period of twenty-five days.
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Jenkins worked with cinematographer and longtime friend
James Laxton
, who previously shot
Medicine for Melancholy
.
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The two chose to avoid the "documentary look" and thus shot the film using widescreen
CinemaScope
on an
Arri Alexa
digital camera
, which better rendered skin tone.
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With colorist Alex Bickel, they further achieved this by creating a color grade that increased the contrast and saturation while preserving the detail and color. As a result, the three chapters of the film were designed to imitate different
film stocks
. The first chapter emulated the
Fuji
film stock to intensify the cast's skin tones. The second chapter imitated the
Agfa
film stock, which added cyan to the images, while the third chapter used a modified
Kodak
film stock.
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Editing
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Post production began in November 2015 and was completed in April 2016.
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The film was edited in
Los Angeles
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by
Joi McMillon
and
Nat Sanders
, former university schoolmates of Jenkins.
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Sanders was responsible for editing the first and second chapters.
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McMillon was responsible for the third act which included the "diner scene", a favorite of the cinematographer Laxton.
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McMillion and Sanders worked in the same room during editing sessions, and were able to exchange notes and provide feedback to one another throughout post production. Because the film did not need to be ready for any film festival or premiere deadlines, they were able to take ample time in post production. Jenkins was usually present during editing sessions. In McMillion's words, "At certain points Barry and Nat would be working on a section of the film and then say 'Hey Joi turn around and look at this" and then vice versa; when Barry was working with me he'd say, 'Hey Nat, how do you feel about this?
'
".
[44]
Sanders and McMillion made several changes from the script, the most notable being the scene in the third act where Chiron visits his mother. This was meant to be one of the first scenes in the third act, but the editors convinced Jenkins to move it later in the story.
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McMillion became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar for her work on the film.
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She remains the only African American woman to be nominated in
the category
.
Music
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The score of
Moonlight
was composed by
Nicholas Britell
, who applied the
chopped and screwed
technique from hip hop remixes to orchestral music, producing a "fluid, bass-heavy score". The soundtrack, released on October 21, 2016, consists of eighteen original cues by Britell along with others by
Goodie Mob
,
Boris Gardiner
, and
Barbara Lewis
.
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A chopped and screwed version was released by
OG Ron C
and
DJ Candlestick
of
The Chopstars
.
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Themes
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Peter Bradshaw
of
The Guardian
, lists "love, sex, survival, mothers and father figures" among its themes, particularly the lack of a nurturing father.
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However,
A. O. Scott
of
The New York Times
cites the character Juan as an example of how the film "evokes cliches of African-American masculinity in order to shatter them."
[53]
In his review in
Variety
,
Peter Debruge suggests that the film demonstrates that the African American identity is more complex than has been portrayed in films of the past.
[54]
For example, while Juan plays the role of Little's defender and protector, he is also part of the root cause of at least some of the hardship the young boy endures.
[55]
A major theme of
Moonlight
is the black male identity and its interactions with
sexual identity
. The film takes a form similar to a
triptych
in order to explore the path of a man from a neglected childhood, through an angry adolescence, to self-realization and fulfillment in adulthood.
[52]
This particular story of Chiron's sexuality is also seen as a story of race in a 'post-
Obama
' era. The film amalgamates
art film
with
hood film
in its portrayal of African-American characters on-screen. Many technical film techniques are employed to juxtapose the characters and action on scene, including the use of an orchestral score done in the melody of popular R&B and hip-hop motifs. This specifically deals with the theme of recuperating identity, especially in terms of blackness.
The characters operate in an urban working-class city in Florida
but are portrayed through art house conventions to create a new space for black characters in cinema.
This mirrors Chiron's own odyssey to learning who he is, as he constantly struggles with trying to find some essentialism to his identity, yet consistently fails in doing so. The triptych structure helps to reiterate the fragmented personality to the film and Chiron.
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Black masculinity
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The film's co-writer,
Tarell Alvin McCraney
, speaks on the topic of black masculinity in the film, explaining why Chiron went to such lengths to alter his persona. He argues that communities without privilege or power seek to gain it in other ways. He says one way in which males in such communities do this is by trying to enhance their masculine identity, knowing that it often provides a means to more social control in a patriarchal society.
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In
Moonlight
, masculinity is portrayed as rigid and aggressive, amongst the behavior of young black males in Chiron's teenage peer group.
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The expression of hyper-masculinity among black men has been associated with peer acceptance and community.
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Being a homosexual within the black community, on the other hand, has been associated with social alienation and homophobic judgement by peers because black gay men are seen as weak or effeminate. In the film, Chiron is placed in this divide as a black gay man and alters his presentation of masculinity as a strategy to avoid ridicule because homosexuality is viewed as incompatible with black masculine expectations. As young kids, Kevin hides his sexuality in order to avoid being singled out like Chiron is. As Chiron grows older, he recognizes the need to conform to a heteronormative ideal of black masculinity in order to avoid abuse and homophobia. As an adult, Chiron chooses to embrace the stereotypical black male gender performance by becoming muscular and a drug-dealer.
[58]
Moonlight
explores the effects of this felt powerlessness in black males. As McCraney explains, coping with this feeling often coincides with attempts to overstate one's masculinity, in a way that can easily become toxic. He says one unfortunate side effect of leaning into masculinity too much is that men no longer want to be "caressed, or nurtured, or gentle", which is why a character like Juan may be puzzling to some audiences.
[57]
Intersection of blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability
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Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability are major focuses of this film.
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In the beach scene with Chiron, Juan, his father figure in the film, emphasizes the importance of black identity. Juan says, "There are black people everywhere. Remember that, okay? No place you can go in the world ain't got no black people. We was the first on this planet." As Juan speaks about the relevance and importance of the black experience, he also thinks about a time in his youth when a stranger told him "in moonlight, black boys look blue." This is an image that the audience gets to see as the director, Barry Jenkins, supplies numerous shots of Chiron in the moonlight. It seems that Juan seems to associate this image with vulnerability, given that he tells Chiron that he eventually shed the nickname "Blue" in order to foster his own identity. The scenes depicting Chiron in the moonlight are almost always the ones in which he's vulnerable, his intimate night on the beach with Kevin included. Throughout the film, this dichotomy between black and blue stands in for that between tough and vulnerable, with the black body often hovering between the two.
[61]
In Chiron's situation, the black body, which can be seen as inherently vulnerable in American society, must be tough in order to survive, as seen by Chiron's final, very masculine and dominant identity.
Water
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Water is often seen as cleansing and transformative and this is apparent in the film as well. Whether it be him swimming in the ocean or simply splashing water on his face, Chiron is constantly interacting with water. However, it is most notable that water is most often seen in the film in times of immense transition for Chiron. Throughout his life, Chiron resorts to water to bring him comfort e.g. taking baths when his mother is not home or swimming in the ocean with Juan. In the scene where Juan taught Little to swim, he explained to him the duality of water in relation to black existence, a concept addressed in Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley's "Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic." The ocean is like a crosscurrent as Tinsley says, that can simultaneously be a place of inequality and exploitation as well as beauty and resistance. Tinsley describes how, "black queerness itself becomes a crosscurrent through which to view hybrid, resistant subjectivities and perhaps, black queers really have no ancestry except the black water."
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The water is either an environment that can destroy Chiron or allow him to triumph, and throughout the movie we see Chiron using the water to cope and find himself.
Food
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The film features three scenes in each of the three chapters that show someone preparing a meal or giving Chiron food to eat. Jenkins has said this was done to display a sense of trust and intimacy between the characters, or to emphasize the lack thereof. In Jenkins words, "When you cook for someone, this is a deliberate act of nurturing, [and] this very simple thing is the currency of genuine intimacy." Chiron's reactions to each of the meal scenes are to display where he is emotionally and psychologically at each chapter in the story. The scene in the diner where Kevin is shown preparing the "Chef Special" in great detail was to accentuate his affection for Chiron in the care he displays as he prepares the meal. This is also the only scene where the food someone gives Chiron is shown being assembled. Jenkins further explained "Something special was happening: Kevin was deliberately preparing this thing out of love. Plus, I've never seen a black man cook for another black man in a film or television or any kind of media."
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Release
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The film had its world premiere at the
Telluride Film Festival
on September 2, 2016.
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It also screened at the
Toronto International Film Festival
on September 10, 2016,
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the
New York Film Festival
on October 2, 2016,
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the
BFI London Film Festival
on October 6, 2016
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and the
Vancouver International Film Festival
on October 7, 2016.
[70]
The film was released to select theaters on October 21, 2016,
[71]
before beginning a wide release on November 18, 2016.
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The full UK cinema release was on February 17, 2017.
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Marketing
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The film's
poster
reflects its triptych structure, combining the three actors portraying Chiron into a single face.
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The trailer for the film was released on August 11, 2016, in time for festival season. Mark Olsen of the
Los Angeles Times
referred to it "as one of the most anticipated films for fall".
[76]
On February 27, 2017, the day after the Academy Awards,
Calvin Klein
released an underwear advertising campaign featuring four of the male actors in the film.
[77]
On March 7, 2017, Beijing-based streaming video service
iQiyi
announced that it has acquired the rights to stream the film in China.
[78]
The film is also available in home media format through
iTunes
and
DVD
.
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Reception
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Box office
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Moonlight
grossed $27.9 million in the United States and Canada and $37.5 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $65.3 million, against a production budget of $4 million.
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The film originally played in four theaters in its limited October 21, 2016, release, grossing $402,072 (a per-theater average $100,519).
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The film's theater count peaked at 650 in its wide opening on November 18, 2016, before expanding to 1,014 theaters in February. After the Oscars ceremony, A24 announced that the film would be played at 1,564 theaters.
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In the weekend following its Oscar wins the film grossed $2.5 million, up 260% from its previous week and marking the highest-grossing weekend of its entire theatrical release. It was also a higher gross than the previous two Best Picture winners,
Spotlight
($1.8 million) and
Birdman
($1.9 million), had in their first weekend following the Academy Awards.
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Critical response
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On
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 402 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "
Moonlight
uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema."
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On
Metacritic
, the film holds a score of 99 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
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On both websites, it was the highest-scoring film released in 2016.
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David Rooney of
The Hollywood Reporter
wrote a positive review after
Moonlight
premiered at the 2016
Telluride Film Festival
. He praised the actors' performances and described the cinematography of James Laxton as "fluid and seductive, deceptively mellow, and shot through with searing compassion". Rooney concluded that the film "will strike plangent chords for anyone who has ever struggled with identity, or to find connections in a lonely world".
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In a uniformly positive review for
Time Out New York
, Joshua Rothkopf gave
Moonlight
five stars out of five and praised Barry Jenkins's direction.
[87]
Brian Formo of
Collider
gave
Moonlight
an 'A?' grade rating, applauding the performances and direction but contending that the film "is more personal and important than it is great".
[88]
Similarly, Jake Cole of
Slant Magazine
praised the acting, but criticized the screenplay, and argued that "so much of the film feels old-hat".
[89]
In a review for
The Verge
, Tasha Robinson lamented the plot details omitted between the film's three acts, but wrote that "what does make it to the screen is unforgettable".
[90]
While discussing the film after its screening at the
2016 Toronto International Film Festival
,
Justin Chang
of the
Los Angeles Times
described
Moonlight
as "achingly romantic and uncommonly wise", and an early
Oscar contender
. Chang further wrote: "[Barry Jenkins] made a film that urges the viewer to look past Chiron's outward appearance and his superficial signifiers of identity, climbing inside familiar stereotypes in order to quietly dismantle them from within ...
[Moonlight]
doesn't say much. It says everything".
[91]
Writing for
The London Review of Books
in February 2017,
Michael Wood
characterized the film as a study of an inherited intergenerational tragedy:
[By the end of the film] there are still ten minutes of late
Ingmar Bergman
to go. The film keeps showing us Chiron's handsome, inscrutable face. The silence doesn't tell us anything, it just asks us to feel sorry for him ... All is not lost, though, because as we gaze at Chiron, we can think of something else: his resemblance to Juan (his father figure). Does it mean that Juan was once a Chiron ... Not quite that perhaps, but the last shot of the film is of the young Chiron sitting on the beach ... looking out at the ocean ... His wide eyes suggest all the desolation and promise that Juan saw in him at the beginning. If we started again, would things be different?
[92]
Camilla Long
of
The Times
wrote that the film's "story has been told countless times, against countless backdrops", and that the film is not "relevant" to a predominantly "straight, white, middle class" audience.
[93]
Catherine Shoard, however, pointed out that "critics' opinions are subjective, and are supposed to be", but also noted her dismay for Long's "struggle to feel for those who aren't like you."
[94]
Moreover,
David McAlmont
of
The Huffington Post
referred to Long's review as "not a review ... [but] a waspish response to other reviews."
[95]
Richard Brody
of
The New Yorker
included
Moonlight
in his list of the best 27 films of the decade.
[96]
On a list of the top ten lists of the decade on
Metacritic
, it was tied for the second-most number ones and ranked second in overall mentions on lists of the top ten films of the decade.
[97]
The website
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
lists
Moonlight
as the 9th most acclaimed film of the 21st century.
[98]
Moonlight
was listed on over 180 critics' top-ten lists for 2016, including 65 first-place rankings and 33 second-place rankings.
[99]
IndieWire
writers ranked
Moonlight
as the 16th best American screenplay of the 21st century, stating that Jenkins and McCraney "dig deep into three brief moments and ask the audience to make connections [...] the bold and risky choices of the
Moonlight
screenplay pay off in ways that make this masterpiece only improve with time and repeat viewings."
[100]
Accolades
[
edit
]
At the
74th Golden Globe Awards
,
Moonlight
received six nominations, the second highest of all film nominees.
[101]
The film won the
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama
, with additional nominations for five more:
Best Director
,
Best Supporting Actor
(for Ali),
Best Supporting Actress
(for Harris),
Best Screenplay
(for Jenkins) and
Best Original Score
(for Britell).
[102]
Moonlight
received four nominations at the
70th British Academy Film Awards
:
Best Film
,
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
,
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
and
Best Original Screenplay
.
[103]
Moonlight
received eight nominations at the
89th Academy Awards
, the second highest of all nominees, including
Best Picture
,
Best Director
,
Best Supporting Actor
(for Ali),
Best Supporting Actress
(for Harris) and
Best Adapted Screenplay
.
[104]
The film won three awards: for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.
[105]
At the ceremony, presenter
Faye Dunaway
read
La La Land
as the winner of Best Picture. Co-presenter
Warren Beatty
subsequently stated that he had been mistakenly given the duplicate envelope for the
Best Actress
award, which
Emma Stone
had won for her role in
La La Land
several minutes earlier.
[106]
When the mistake was realized,
La La Land
producer
Jordan Horowitz
came forward to announce
Moonlight
as the actual winner.
[107]
The Best Picture envelope is on display at the
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
in Los Angeles. Beatty wrote a congratulatory note to Jenkins, which is also on display at the Academy Museum.
[108]
During his keynote presentation at the 2018 SXSW Festival, Jenkins read the acceptance speech he had prepared in the event of
Moonlight
winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. He had been unable to deliver the intended speech at the ceremony due to the confusion over
La La Land
being mistakenly announced as the winner.
[109]
Because the film's screenplay was based on a play that had not been previously produced or published, different awards had different rules as to whether
Moonlight
qualified in the original or adapted screenplay categories.
[110]
It was classified as an original screenplay by both the Writers Guild of America Awards and the BAFTAs, but was ruled an adapted screenplay according to Academy Award rules.
[110]
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon were nominated for
Best Film Editing
, making McMillon the first black woman to earn an Academy Award nomination in film editing.
[111]
It is also the first LGBTQ film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
[112]
Cultural impact
[
edit
]
The film is referenced in "Moonlight", a song from
Jay-Z
's 2017
studio album
4:44
.
[113]
In the closing of The Simpsons episode "
Haw-Haw Land
" it is stated that the episode was supposed to be a parody of the film rather than
La La Land
(itself parodying the mistake at the 89th Academy Awards.
[114]
)
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Giardina, Carolyn (January 24, 2017).
"Oscars: 'Moonlight' Editing Nomination Marks a First"
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Lang, Nico (February 27, 2017).
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"Moonlight" is the first LGBT movie to win best picture. Here's why it matters"
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Salon
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Izadi, Elahe.
"Analysis | Jay-Z's 'Moonlight' music video does more than simply show 'Friends' with an all-black cast"
.
Washington Post
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"Jay-Z's 'Moonlight' music video does more than simply show 'Friends' with an all-black cast"
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