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Ghostlight
2024
Comedy / Drama.
Plot summary
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
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Movie Reviews
7 / 10
Funny and Emotional
The second film from the (married) team of Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson (Saint Frances). Like their first film (both written by O’Sullivan) it does a great job of combining comedy with serious drama; there a multiple laugh-out-loud moments, and a few subtle dark comedy bits. Keith Kupferer (Princess Cyd) is rather good and is able to guide the film through some lulls (which there are a few; in particular the deposition scenes are a little long); the potentially convenient plot points and developments never bothered me and I thought worked but perhaps some might find them a little too convenient. Kupferer’s real-life daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer plays in in-film daughter and absolutely steals the show as the angry-and-agnsty theater kid. The entire ensemble is enjoyable and helps bring a lot of laughs. For O’Sullivan’s second film she has established herself as a someone who can weave comedy into emotional dramas that although they get close to being sappy but never quite do as they are grounded in well-developed characters. Perhaps my only knock is that the film uses ‘Under Pressure’ and after watching Aftersun the song only reminds me of Aftersun and although the song absolutely ruined me mid-movie it is because of a different movie.
9 / 10
Openly Wept
I used to be embarrassed to cry in movies and would try as hard as I could to keep it in. But that would always leave me feeling afterwards like I had a head cold, plus now I’m older and I don’t give a hoot what people think. So now I let my freak flag fly and just openly weep in a movie theater if the mood strikes me. I’ve also found since I had children of my own that more things make me emotional than previously.So I was an absolutely snotty, dripping mess at multiple times throughout this movie. I’m a sucker anyway for stories about people who see other people at their worst moments and respond with kindness and understanding rather than harsh judgement, and this is that kind of story. It’s also about the power of art to help us work through our emotions, make sense of the world, find common ground with others, broaden our perspectives, all the things the world feels really in need of right now but yet seems determined not to do.
Is “Ghostlight” manipulative? Probably. Does it hold up to scrutiny afterwards? I’m not sure, possibly not. But I don’t care because I didn’t scrutinize this movie afterwards. I just let myself feel it, and that’s what I want to take away with me.
Dj Chilu 
