Medicine for Melancholy

Medicine for Melancholy

By Barry Jenkins

  • Genre: Romance
  • Release Date: 2009-01-30
  • Advisory Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: Barry Jenkins
  • Production Company: Bandry
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
5.9/10
5.9
From 33 Ratings

Description

Barry Jenkins’ (Moonlight) intelligent, moving, and visually striking love story of bikes and one-night stands is told through two African-American twenty-somethings (Wyatt Cenac and Tracey N. Heggins) as they confront issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.

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  • Nice Offering

    4
    By Bubba Naga
    I liked this movie & hope the film makers keep at it.
  • Medicine for Melancholy

    4
    By SJG11
    This is a quiet, unsentimental movie that takes its time. Beautifully shot and artfully muted in tone, you can feel the characters thinking and feeling in the silences that punctuate the clusters of dialogue. It is thought-provoking and socially conscious (race, class, gender) without being polemical: a breath of fresh air. You don't have to know San Francisco to like this film, but if you do, so much the better. Leads are perfectly cast.
  • Amazing Character driven movie, love letter to San Fran.

    5
    By Da BEATNIK
    This might be THE Black indie film, it's amazing and so realistic. Dialogue carries this movie and the cinematography is great, somebody a movie some of us can truly relate to.
  • Brutally Underrated Work of Genius!

    5
    By GeniusOfSound
    This is pre-Daily Show Wyatt Cenac at his peak, as a man stuggling between his race and the culture he lives in. This movie simultaneously and effortlessly examines a wide range of topics and is one of those independent films with a surrealy timeless spin on it. If you have any doubts about this movie I beg you to buy it and put those doubts to rest.
  • Superb indie film.

    5
    By I.Rothschild
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