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Yi Yi

2000 · Directed by Edward Yang · Taiwan

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Taiwan · 2000

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Moonlight 2016 · Barry Jenkins Atlas note Disney+

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Barry Jenkins has cited Claire Denis's Beau Travail as a foundational influence, the film that showed him how to use the body, light, and music as primary storytelling tools rather than dialogue. Moonlight's fragmented structure, its use of color as emotion, its willingness to let silence carry meaning, these are lessons from Denis and Wong Kar-wai. Beau Travail is streaming on Criterion Channel and is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

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