Medicine for Melancholy

Barry Jenkins

IndieLisboa 2009 •

United States of America, Fiction, 2007, 87′

Two African-American twenty-somethings wake up in bed together having no recollection of how they arrived there. It’s clear they’ve had sex. Then, an exercise in the mundane; shake hands, part ways. Hours later, the guy shows up at her apartment. There’s a connection. Wandering the streets of San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon, the pair take in the sights of the city less seen in today’s cinema.The immediacy of their previous physical encounter leads them to explore each other in a succession of moments so intimate the vulnerability they share changes them forever. By the time these two part ways is it literally a “brand new day.”