Not particularly known to be an early bird, I walked down to Grand this morning to watch “Medicine for melancholy”, an independent feature film by Barry Jenkins.
“Medicine for melancholy” is not only a love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings. Several of the scenes dig into the issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco—a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city. But even though, the characters’ interaction is complicated by racial and political elements it does have its humorous moments.
The music choice is also worth mentioning. Great sounds from Au Revoir Simone, The Changes and The Answering Machine.
