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If Beale Street Could Talk......it would say "meh". This post is going to be a really hard write as we found the filming, the script and the delivery really slow and we're struggling to come up with many positives.


It was Romeo & Juliet meets paint drying. It started with an explanation that Beale Street is representative of any street, and that its an area of music, loud music, and then it became one of the quietest movies we have seen. It felt like a great opportunity to showcase some of that music, in fact it would have made a great musical. Its the story of a young black couple, who are clearly very in love, and those loving moments are tender.

The lighting and the intense close-ups were interesting at first but wore thin by the end. The characters spoke so slowly and poetically that they never developed fully and it was difficult to engage with them. Characters were introduced that never went anywhere, and the ending felt  unsatisfactory. We felt like we spent the whole film waiting for it to start and it was frustratingly disappointing.

There is a message, of course, but even that message of bias in the system, and the racial unrest and blatant inequality on the streets of 1970's Harlem delivered nothing new.
It was difficult to get a feel for the acting skills of any of the cast due to the nature of the delivery, although Regina King gets a mention for her support of the star crossed lovers.


We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment.
If Beale Street Could Talk = 3     (see above)

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