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Moonlight

When: Friday 4th April 2025

Hosted by: WMIP Analytic Film Group

We meet regularly online (once every couple of months) and bring analytic thinking to discussions on a range of films. Group members suggest film and at the end of each session we draw the title for our next session. Films are introduced by the proposer who invites the group members into an exploration from a psychological perspective

This film is available to watch on Apple TV £5.49, Amazon Video £5.49, Microsoft Store £4.49, You Tube (standard definition) £3.49

Starring: Travente Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monae, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali.
Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins

Moonlight: PLOT

Going from childhood, to teenage hood, to adulthood, this winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards follows an African-American man trying to understand himself and his sense of love in Miami’s poorer district – a hardskinned place that wants to predefine him.

“Moonlight is a film about masculinity, the wounds and crises of which are the same for all sexualities, but conditioned by the background weather of race and class. “I cry so much sometimes I might turn to drops,” confesses Chiron to Kevin, and, as for so many men, growing up for him is the search for ways to cauterise sadness, to anaesthetise it with rage. Moonlight finds a way to convert it into happiness” (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 2017).

Booking is required

Please email laurachaisty19@gmail.com to register your details by Friday 4^th April

Joining instructions will be sent out just after 5pm on the day.

For up to date information about the film group, sign up, or to be included on the WhatsApp group, email Laura Chaisty or text on 07588777163.

This is a FREE event open to WMIP members only

For more information about joining us, please visit https://wmip.org/join-us/

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