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What I Like About

What I Like About: Moonlight and the Metaphor of Water

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date June 10, 2019
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Water is very fluid. Terrible pun, to be sure, but it’s true in terms of its metaphorical content.

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Tags Barry Jenkins, Coming of age stories, LGBT Movies, Mahershala Ali, Moonlight, Movies about sexuality, Naomi Harris, Pocahontas, Pride, Pride Month, Water, Water as metaphor

Lists

2017: Best of, 10-1

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date January 5, 2018
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Click here for my 2017 Watchlist and Guilty Pleasures, here for my Worst List 24-11, here for my Best List 23-11 and here for my Worst List 10-1.

Let’s finish this off with the best films I saw released in Ireland in 2017.

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