Quintessential Directors: Barry Jenkins
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Shortly after season two of Fleabag dropped on Amazon Prime in 2019, Barack Obama put it on his list as one of his favorite television series of the year.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
It surely isn't for everybody and could certainly offend some folks, but Troll Hunter takes a different approach to representing religion in a film.
Joker is a compelling, character-driven, psychological tale that has a message behind the madness.