Ghostlight

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Chicago Critics Film Festival
WINNER – Audience Award
“Every performance in Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s Ghostlight is gripping, charming, and blisteringly human. I could not look away from the screen. Beyond its narrative successes, Ghostlight is the sort of movie that makes me love movies as a form. It’s exceptional because it’s a story that could only be conveyed through film: modern, vulgar, messy, and mortal, contained in the strict medium of cinema. I’m not sure I’ve ever cried harder in public or more immediately wanted to see a film again. Watching Ghostlight is a singular experience, evoking the magic feeling of freedom from heartbreak. – Nick Malone, Pop Matters

Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s (SAINT FRANCES) moving, gently comic collaboration is about the power of live theater to make sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives. Ghostlight centers on Dan (Keith Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction worker grieving a family tragedy. Cut off from his devoted wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen), and talented but troubled daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), Dan finds comfort and community in a misfit company of amateur actors. While moonlighting in a low-rent production of Shakespeare’s most protean tragedy, Dan is forced to confront his buried emotions. Real-life family Mallen, Kupferer, and Mallen Kupferer bring tenderness and authenticity to this poignant portrait, while Dolly de Leon — last seen stealing the scene in Triangle of Sadness — is hilarious as Dan’s irascible, improbable co-star. – Sundance Film Festival

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Details:
116 min
Rated R
Aspect Ratio - Flat (1.85 : 1)
Distributor - IFC Films
in English

Showing Today at the Theater Mon, Jun 17

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