Turner did for the sea.Īmazon has curiously dropped all ten episodes of this dense miniseries at once. With “The Underground Railroad,” a compositional achievement-pictorial and psychological-Jenkins has done for the antebellum South what J. Here, working again with his longtime collaborator, the cinematographer James Laxton, he is a virtuosic landscape artist. We have known Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight,” as a portraitist. At night, a path leading somewhere-whether to freedom or execution, we don’t know-pulses with death. In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund, owing to the work of the enslaved laborers who stand painfully erect among the crop, like stalks themselves. In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s popular novel “The Underground Railroad,” it is as if the land speaks.
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