If Beale Street Could Talk

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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Timing: 2:0 (120 min)

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Budget
$12 000 000
Revenue
$20 572 691
Director
Scenario
Producer
Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski, Megan Ellison, Sara Murphy, Brad Pitt, Chelsea Barnard, Megan Ellison, Sarah Esberg
Operator
James Laxton
Composer
Artist
Mark Friedberg, Erica Hohf
Audition
Editing
Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon, Andrea Pappas
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Short description

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film was shot in Harlem, New York.
  • A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name (1974) by American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987).
  • Director Barry Jenkins placed great importance on sound and at one time studied with sound engineer Richard Portman (1934-2017).
  • Both the film and the novel it was based on make the same mistake – Beale Street is located not in New Orleans, but in Memphis, the hometown of composer, trumpeter, clarinetist, and arranger William Christopher Handy (1873-1958).

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