In a scene that could have been so much darker ... “It evolved when the character is also evolving,” says Laxton. Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike ...

Mahershala Ali squeezed in his scenes as Little's father ... patient filmmaking, building Chiron's sense of isolation so effectively that by the time Moonlight reaches its intimate penultimate ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...