“I always wanted to use my voice to tell the story of my ancestors and to highlight this period that our country too often obscures
,
”
says Barry Jenkins. As the whole world watches this near-unknown, in 2017, receiving the Oscar for best film for
Moonlight
, portrait of a teenager in the red light districts of Miami, in the face of
La La Land
(then announced the winner by mistake), the African-American filmmaker is already maturing the adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel
The Underground Railroad
, winner of the Pulitzer. Four years and a movie later (the romantic
Si Beale Street Could Talk
), Barry Jenkins delivers to Amazon Prime Video subscribers the extraordinary fruits of his labor: ten episodes in which his humanist lyricism lays bare the brutality of slavery.
Each shot is a masterpiece of delicate harmony, even when the worst is unfolding.
It feels like paintings by Winslow Homer.
The Underground Railroad
is yet as radical as it was and bloody
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