Kiki Lane and Stephan James enchanted with each other in If Beale Street Could Talk.
Valentine’s Day is a key launch date for movies in the US and we duly follow suit. There is a heap of mainstream films crashing onto the market, but most of them won’t inspire couples in a romantic mood.
Best hope there is probably If Beale Street Could Talk, an indy US film about a family’s attempt to have a wrongly charged young Black man given the justice he deserves. It was directed by Barry Jenkins who co-wrote and directed Moonlight, and based on a book by the illuminating and wise James Baldwin. That is what we call a pedigree.