Selected for Sundance Film Festival 2024 and SXSW 2024, Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s moving, gently comic collaboration GHOSTLIGHT is about the power of live theatre to make sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives.
GHOSTLIGHT centres 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 in the company of non professional 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.
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