Panida to screen 2016 Best Picture winner Moonlight

By Reader Staff

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Critics went nuts when Moonlight hit theaters in 2016 — a level of enthusiasm that carried through to the 2017 Oscars, where the film won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also earned nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Best Directing, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Original Score.

What’s more, Mahershala Ali won Outstanding Supporting Actor from the 2017 Screen Actors Guild and Naomie Harris earned a SAG nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress. Heck, Ali, Harris and the rest of their colleagues were all nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture by SAG.

If that seems like a lot of wins and nods for “supporting” performances, it’s because there really was no singular “star” of the show, owing to Moonlight’s narrative structure: exploring the life from adolescence to adulthood of a Black man named Chiron in Miami, portrayed by three different actors.

Alex R. Hibbert opens the film in the role of Chiron, called “Little” by his tormentors. As a youth, Little falls under the wing of drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali), who supplies Little’s mother Paula (Naomie Har- ris). Ashton Sanders portrays Chiron in his teenage years, as he struggles to find comfort, companionship and stability in life that has so far offered little of those qualities. In the third act, Trevante Rhodes is Chiron as a young adult, giving audiences an emotional capstone to a truly affecting and uniquely framed coming-of-age story.

Centered on notions of community, self-identity, sexuality and masculinity, rogerebert.com gave Moonlight an enthusiastic four stars, praising it as, “a movie in which deep, complex themes are reflected through character first and foremost. … Every performance, every shot choice, every piece of music, every lived-in setting — it’s one of those rare movies that just doesn’t take a wrong step.”

Find out what made critics rave in 2016 — and continue to describe Moonlight as one of the best films of the 2010s — when it comes to the Panida Theater for two screenings in its Global Cinema Cafe series Sunday, April 23, with a matinee at 2:30 p.m. and evening show at 6:30 p.m. Doors open 30 minutes before the show and tickets are $8 advance, $10 at the door for adults, and $7 advance and $9 at the door for youth and seniors. Get tickets at panida. org/event/moonlight or at the box office, 300 N. First Ave.

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