If Beale Street Could Talk London film premiere 2023

1. The name Deux Soeurs is displayed at the perfume counter where Tish works. Deux Soeurs is not a known parfumerie, but Deux Soeurs, LLC is credited as the film's copyright holder. The story also features two pairs of sisters.
2. For light, Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton looked at Roy DeCarava's work: "We wanted to translate Baldwin's language and Harlem's clean energy into visual writing and photography."
3. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The song is on Louis Armstrong album Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. from 1954.
4. Sound is very important to Barry Jenkins who was a student of sound engineer Richard Portman during his film studies. The latter is known to have developed with Robert Altman the "multitrack" device. The director details the work done by Onnalee Blank, the sound editing supervisor, and Mathew Waters, the mixer his re-recordings.
5. The first trailer was released on August 2, 2018, which would have been the 94th birthday of novelist James Baldwin.
6. Part of the filming took place at St. Nicolas Avenue, which Barry Jenkins knows well for having lived in the corner on 145th Street for a long time.

Genre

Drama,Romance

Cast

as Tish Rivers

as Alonzo 'Fonny' Hunt

as Sharon Rivers

as Ernestine Rivers

as Joseph Rivers

as Young Fonny

as Adrienne Hunt

as Sheila Hunt

as Frank Hunt

as Mrs. Hunt

as Pedrocito

as Victoria Rogers

as Officer Bell

as Hayward

as Daniel Carty

as Black Cat #2