Ghostlight
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“It seems you might want a chance at being somebody else”
Overview
Listless and melancholic, Chicago labourer Dan (an outstanding Keith Kupferer) finds himself exploding at work, and at home in front of his daughter Daisy and wife Sharon (played by Kupferer’s real life family Katherine Mallen Kupferer and Tara Mallen). One day he stumbles upon a local theatre group led by the spiky but kind theatre veteran Rita (a scene stealing Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness). Despite having no acting experience, Dan soon takes part in a production of Romeo and Juliet and in this emotional outlet he never had, he begins to notice his own life mirroring the play.
“One of the best movies of the year...a film about the world-changing power of artistic communion, about how creativity, compassion, and forgiveness — of oneself and others — are all pit stops on the same human journey”
“There's a purity and earnestness to what (Ghostlight) is doing that's increasingly unusual in American independent cinema”
“Life-sustaining... directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are extraordinarily perceptive in highlighting the instances where stagecraft informs everyday life”
Why You Should See This Film
Touching hearts and wetting eyes at Sundance, Sydney and festivals across the globe, Ghostlight is a sweetly unassuming and deeply moving ode to the therapeutic properties of art and how it inspires, validates and changes our lives. All the world’s a stage and writer-director duo Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson (Saint Frances) honour Shakespeare’s tenet by cleverly exploring the parallels in our lives on and off stage through an ensemble of vulnerable, layered and honest performances. We recommend bringing along tissues for this one.
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