If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel, is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It was adapted as a film of the same name, written and directed by Barry Jenkins, and it garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Regina King. The film was released theatrically on December 14, 2018.
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Based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name, the film centers around a young African-American woman's attempt to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
If Beale Street Could Talk的成就
The movie was written for the screen and directed by Barry Jenkins. It is his first film since Moonlight won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It was a Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay.
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Harlem in fiction.. Novels by James Baldwin.
