Medicine For Melancholy

The first feature film by Barry Jenkins, the director of 2016’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture Moonlight, stars Wyatt Cenac (formerly of The Daily Show) and Tracey Heggins (LUV). A hit at MdFF 2008, Jenkins’ first feature offers a beautiful and thoughtful work akin to Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy. Two young, black San Francisco residents awake from a one-night stand and spend a day walking together through their city reflecting on gentrification, race, politics, and the black experience.

 
“Writer-director Barry Jenkins demonstrates a rare ability to communicate a state of mind through images.”–Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Smart, funny, and visually gorgeous, with the intimacy of a relationship drama and the resonance of a city portrait.”–David Edelstein, New York Magazine