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.
In Love
After graduating from the teacher's college, Wen Jiefei came to Hainan, a large special zone, to seek a job as a teacher, in the face of various temptations, so Wen Jiefei lost interest in being a teacher, she decided to find another career. Fan Jiyuan, a builder of peasant origin, has been poor since childhood and has not attended school for a few days, so he especially admires educated intellectuals. By chance, he met Wen Jiefei, who was looking for a job, and helped her with her housing, for which Wen was grateful. Her ex-boyfriend Zhang Zhu also came to Hainan from the mainland to participate in education work, and urged her to return to school work, Wen insisted refused. But just the province of Hainan is like the eight immortals, each can show their abilities of the battlefield, every day there are dream-making "miracle", some people get rich overnight, there are people instantly penniless. Where is the way out of it ......
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After graduating from the teacher's college, Wen Jiefei came to Hainan, a large special zone, to seek a job as a teacher, in the face of various temptations, so Wen Jiefei lost interest in being a teacher, she decided to find another career. Fan Jiyuan, a builder of peasant origin, has been poor since childhood and has not attended school for a few days, so he especially admires educated intellectuals. By chance, he met Wen Jiefei, who was looking for a job, and helped her with her housing, for which Wen was grateful. Her ex-boyfriend Zhang Zhu also came to Hainan from the mainland to participate in education work, and urged her to return to school work, Wen insisted refused. But just the province of Hainan is like the eight immortals, each can show their abilities of the battlefield, every day there are dream-making "miracle", some people get rich overnight, there are people instantly penniless. Where is the way out of it ......
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