If Beale Street Could Talk trailer: Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up is a story about love enduring in the face of racial injustice

The official trailer for If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his Oscar winning Moonlight, was released over the weekend.

Based on James Baldwin’s celebrated 1974 novel, the film’s trailer tells the tale of two young lovers in Harlem, Tish (newcomer Kiki Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James), whose life together, just as it’s starting, is shattered by a racist police officer and a false accusation of rape. The film, bathed in the warm cinematography of James Laxton and the melancholy Miles Davis Kind of Blue-inspired horns of composer Nicholas Britell (both of whom worked on Moonlight, too), radiates with the love between the two and the sorrow of their unjust but not uncommon circumstance.

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