Medicine for Melancholy

Name: Medicine for Melancholy
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2008
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 3.3
Cast: Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins, John Thurgood, Brent Weinbach, Viktor Mikshansky

Barry Jenkins20081h 28mRomance, Drama

Why we chose it

Eight years before “Moonlight”, Barry Jenkins made his debut with two strangers who wake up in a bed that isn’t theirs and spend the day crossing a gentrifying San Francisco that is quietly pushing out people like them. Whenever the talk turns to race, the colour drains from the frame.

Synopsis

Micah and Jo wake up the morning after a party in somebody else’s bed and go their separate ways, until she leaves her wallet in a taxi and Micah turns up to return it. They end up spending the rest of the day walking around San Francisco. He wants to talk about being Black in a city that is only seven per cent Black, and she would rather not.