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Light of My Life

2019

Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck, Anna Pniowsky, Tom Bower, Elisabeth Moss ...

6.0

2,792

Drama A father tells his child a story. It is evening, and they are lying in a tent in the middle of the forest. What at first glance appears idyllic turns out to be an exceptional situation: in this post-pandemic world, the father is doing everything in his power to protect Rag.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A respectable debut, with more depth of feeling than originality (...) What holds the film back is the familiarity of its elements"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"A solid, somber but superbly performed indie (...) Its meandering course takes in some fascinatingly risky moments (...) Heartfelt, intelligent and earnest"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] confuses dragginess with art (...) Scene for scene, Affleck does a decent job of directing — his touch is soft, intimate, humane — but he has saddled himself with a script that isn’t entirely there."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Leave No Trace' meets 'The Road' (...) 'Light of My Life' delivers a lush variation on familiar elements, and wends its way to a tense final showdown that makes the wandering trajectory worthwhile"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A superb performance by Affleck (...) 'Light Of My Life' is both intense and undoubtedly sincere (...) [It] should be warmly welcomed by connoisseurs of unadorned, high-quality cinema."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"It is a fine film (...) intimate, beautifully crafted and with a slow-burning intensity hat you don’t find in most sci-fi dramas of this nature (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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