Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.... (Full plot summary below)
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Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.
Leave your thoughts about Medicine for Melancholy.
| Village VoiceErnest HardyJenkins's dialogue is crisp and witty, sounding and flowing the way real people speak. But it's also shrewdly nuanced. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinJenkins is so desperate to give his love story a social and economic context that he stops the movie cold for a bunch of unrelated white people to articulate their grievances over gentrification--it's as if "Annie Hall" had paused for a seminar on agrarian reform. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJenkins has an admirable feeling for, as the French would say, mise en scène, and a gift for placing actors in naturalistic settings. What he lacks at this point is a strong story sense. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThere are no simple answers or obvious conclusions to be gleaned from this movie, which, like its soundtrack, is both sad and vibrant, meandering and formally sure-footed. It is an exciting debut, and a film that, without exaggeration or false modesty, finds interest and feeling in the world just as it is. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleUnder the subdued, dignified surface, this movie - about the 24 hours after a one-night stand - churns with a filmmaker's fascination and wonder, sadness and longing. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThe movie's ideas float atop it like whipped cream on coffee, but the actors' chemistry makes for a pleasant, unassuming walk-and-talk. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowYet it's pretty in all the wrong ways: pretty slight, pretty preachy and pretty affected. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyThe narrative, at times, veers into overstatement, but for the most part we're allowed to eavesdrop on their self-examination guilt-free. |
| Seattle TimesTed FryA hazy, nuanced and remarkably assured debut from filmmaker Barry Jenkins. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonShot in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy has a uniquely sleepy, dewy look, making our fair city look like a quiet corner of Europe. |
