Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins discussed his coming-of-age drama Moonlight at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday by dissecting the swimming lesson scene that comes early on in the Oscar-winning movie. "The physical swimming is a very small part.
There was an almost spiritual transference between the two characters," Jenkins told the virtual discussion with French auteur Claire Denis as he underlined the emotional impact of the ocean sequence.
In Moonlight, Jenkins has a drug dealer (Mahershala Ali), cradle in ocean waters a young boy, Chiron, played by Alex Hibbert, as he is taught to swim.
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