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Director Barry Jenkins Breaks Down a Key "Flashout" in 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

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Channel: Rotten Tomatoes · 2018 · Film & Animation

Writer-director Barry Jenkins demonstrated a knack for balancing delicate romance with compelling drama in his Oscar-winning 'Moonlight,' and his new film, 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' is a similarly ethereal love story told partially in flashback -- or "flashout" as Jenkins calls it -- from the perspective of Kiki Layne's Tish Rivers. Here, Jenkins talks about the scene in the film when Fonny (Stephan James) brings Tish to an empty, decrepit loft and invites her to imagine the life they could build there together. He explains why the scene is key in understanding their relationship, how he achieved the seamless, fluid camerawork within the confines of the loft, and how the elevated reality of Tish's flashouts was achieved.

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Director Barry Jenkins Breaks Down a Key "Flashout" in 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

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