So many of this film’s most important scenes take place under the moon, particularly the climax. While so many movies of the so-called “hood genre” end with someone getting shot, “Moonlight” ends with ...

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 ...

In the final chapter, Chiron visits her mother ... By the end of Moonlight, it feels as though you've watched Paula, through merely a handful of scenes, struggle and persevere through a 15-year ...

In an early scene of this powerful and unusual film, a boy called Chiron but nicknamed Little ... the emotional content of the film. “Moonlight,” composer Britell said in an interview ...

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 ...