The spirit of Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” weighs heavily, both thematically and stylistically, on “Brother,” a drama about two brothers growing up in a low-income Toronto suburb that lacks the grace…
as his hulking older brother Lamar. The two live with their overworked single mother in a cramped apartment in the low-income Toronto suburb of Scarborough, which is populated primarily by immigrants.
Shot in beautiful widescreen by Guy Godfree, “Brother” conveys a strong sense of place — Scarborough serves as a character the way Liberty Square was more than a backdrop in “Moonlight” — and although the movie jumps back and forth in time from scene to scene, Virgo uses subtle production design and costuming to make sure you always know what time period you are watching .
Although he looks too old for his character, Pierre shares a genuine rapport with Johnson: The actors talk and communicate with the familiar shorthand of actual siblings, and the best scenes in the movie belong to them. Johnson gives the film its poetic soul. Pierre adds a dimension of tragic inevitability, especially after the film reveals a crucial aspect of his character that had been previously hidden.
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