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Ghostlight (2024)

Drama | 115 minutes
3,75 38 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 115 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson

Stars: Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen and Katherine Mallen Kupferer

IMDb score: 7,5 (7.839)

Releasedate: 18 January 2024

Ghostlight plot

Construction worker Dan is in mourning with his family. Unlike a group of amateur actors, he finds it difficult to find comfort and connection with his wife and daughter. He works during the production of Romeo and Juliet and notices similarities between the play and his personal life. Dan is confronted with his deeply buried emotions.

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mrklm

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Through his work, surly construction worker Dan [Keith Kupferer] comes into contact with actress Rita [Dolly De Leon], who invites him to participate in a group reading of 'Romeo & Juliet'. At home, Dan struggles with his rebellious daughter Daisy [Katherine Mallen Kupferer] and he and his wife Sharon [Tara Mallen] prepare for a civil lawsuit against Christine [Lia Cubilete]. Step by step, O'Sullivan's brilliant screenplay reveals the cause of the tensions in the family and we see how Dan, with the support of the theater company, learns to express his long-suppressed emotions. Experimental drama with a real (actor) family in the lead role (Katherine shone last year in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret) feels authentic on all fronts with a clever mix of humor and heartbreak. The best film about coping with grief since Ordinary People.

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De filosoof

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The film is better than it initially appears. It begins with a family grappling with the loss of their son, the daughter openly expressing her pain through aggression, while the father expresses his grief only through fits of rage and energy devoted to a lawsuit the family has filed regarding their son's death. He becomes involved in an amateur theater club, where he participates in an unbelievable way, receiving hugs and love from his fellow actors and being emotionally challenged. The film is primarily saccharine, suggesting that the theater group is the right therapy for him, who had no interest in therapy. But the film improves because a deeper layer is revealed: they are rehearsing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , and their son's story turns out to be precisely the Romeo and Juliet story, in which the son committed suicide because the lovers' families separated them. Re-enacting the domestic drama in the form of Shakespeare's play provides precisely the catharsis for the withdrawn man – it literally gives him the words to express his grief when he could otherwise not talk about his emotions – thus making reconciliation possible: it allows for grieving and resolves the conflict with the other family so that the parallel legal play does not have to proceed.

The film's strength lies in its ability to not only demonstrate the healing, cathartic power of theater (which, of course, is also theater itself), but also to breathe new life into Shakespeare's old play by imbuing it with the soul of a contemporary drama. As a viewer of this film, it's difficult to keep a dry eye during Shakespeare's words, something "serious" performances might find more difficult: by offering the viewer catharsis, the film affirms the value of theater, and Shakespeare could not be dissatisfied with the film.

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