Barry Jenkins' film, starring Tracey Heggins and Wyatt Cenac, studies clashes and tenuous connections against the backdrop of a changing city
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
The bed is strange, the bedfellow a stranger and just what happened before morning nudged those sleeping shoulders awake is lost in the tangle of sheets that was last night.
This is how writer-director Barry Jenkins pulls us into his introspective first feature, "Medicine for Melancholy," giving us no clue in those initial moments just how complex its themes will be, packaged as they are in this tiniest sliver of a film.
Its two quiet characters shrug off sleep but not quite each other. Over a cup of morning-after coffee, they finally trade names and begin a series of uneasy efforts to unknot the mystery of each other. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3304 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 20 febbraio 2009
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