Light of My Life

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Movie
German title Light of My Life
Original title Light of My Life
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Casey Affleck
script Casey Affleck
production Teddy Schwarzman ,
Casey Affleck,
John Powers Middleton
music Daniel Hart
camera Adam Arkapaw
cut Dody Dorn ,
Christopher Tellefsen
occupation

Light of My Life is a film drama by Casey Affleck that premiered on February 8, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on August 9, 2019.

action

In the future, almost all women have perished in a mysterious pandemic. A father does anything to protect Rag, whose mother also died. He insists that she dress like a boy and keeps her away from other people. Rag never saw any other girl or woman. Only in his bedtime stories, which he thinks up spontaneously, does he tell her about strong women. Rag and her father live in a tent in the woods, and he has built an alarm system around the small camp made of wires and tin cans. If the father senses danger, for example from uninvited visitors to their camp, they move on. So you come across a house that looks abandoned. Even if it seems safe, has running water and even a children's room, the father does not want to stay there, but his daughter persuades him to stay there. However, the fact that Rag tries on the girls' clothes he has found does not go down well with her father. Rag also reacts rather disinterestedly when he tries to educate his daughter and prepare her for what changes her body can expect in the near future.

After a visit to the nearby town, where you haven't seen a boy of this age for a long time, strangers notice Rag. Visited by them, Rag and her father first flee to a church. She begins to wonder what would happen if she got into the hands of strangers or if her father died. On their further journey, the father takes the car of a young man who wanted to take the two hitchhikers with him. They drive to the house where his grandparents once lived. Since this was uninhabited for years, you will find three religious men there. Rag can live a carefree, almost normal life for a while, occupy himself with the llamas and sheep or build figures out of snow. However, one of the men quickly realizes that Rag is really not a boy. The father confesses to him for the first time that she is his daughter. The man tells him that there are bunkers in New York and not far from them where the few women who are still alive are housed.

One day three strangers approach the house. The father has to kill two of the men, but the third overpowers him. A rifle shot by his daughter at the attacker saves his life. However, he is hit by the shotgun itself. They go to a nearby hut, where Rag is treating her father.

production

The shooting took place on, among others, in the nature reserve Garry Oak Vancouver Iceland held

Casey Affleck directed the film, wrote the screenplay and stars in the lead role of the father. After the film I'm Still Here , it is the second feature film that Affleck has directed. Anna Pniowsky plays his daughter Rag in the film.

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Christine Roche and the dialogue direction by Patrick Roche on behalf of Scalamedia GmbH, Berlin. Björn Schalla dubs Affleck in his role in the German version, Lucy Fandrych lends her voice to daughter Rag.

The film music is composed by Daniel Hart. The soundtrack, which comprises a total of eleven pieces of music, is to be released by Varese Sarabande as a download on August 16, 2019.

Filming began in February 2017 and took place in the wooded Okanagan Valley in British Columbia . The cabin Rag and her father move into at the end of the film is a Grade II listed farmhouse in the Garry Oak Conservation Area on Vancouver Island . The Australian Adam Arkapaw acted as cameraman .

The film was shown for the first time on February 8, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival . In the program of the film festival, Light of My Life is described as a mixture of survival drama and coming-of-age story . At the end of June and beginning of July 2019 the film was shown at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , at the end of July and beginning of August 2019 at the Jerusalem Film Festival . It is scheduled to hit US cinemas on August 9, 2019.

reception

Reviews

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter writes in his review that the film inevitably reminds one of Debra Granik's Leave No Trace . Anna Pniowsky is a real discovery, Rooney continues.

Owen Gleiberman from Variety recalls that Casey Affleck has already been seen in his previous roles in slowly built films that enjoy their high spirits and that it is therefore only logical that he acted similarly on his directorial debut. His survival drama is peppered with allusions to science fiction apocalypses, such as The Road or A Quiet Place , but also It Comes at Night . Basically, the film is about the unshakable connection between father and daughter and the way in which it intensifies and deepens, but unfortunately this is not enough to sustain a two-and-a-half hour film, according to Gleiberman.

Even Eric Kohn of Indiewire says, Light of My Life consolidates the sleepy, expressionist style that Affleck in the last 20 years in many of his works has found as an actor. From Gerry to The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford to The Saints - They knew no law , Affleck had a penchant for playing dazed introverts in empty worlds. The Australian cameraman Adam Arkapaw developed the film with a gray-tinted color palette, which provides the exterior shots with picturesque depths, says Kohn, while the composer Daniel Hart created haunting film music. Even if the film is a little lengthy, it becomes extremely lively in the last few minutes. In the exciting ending of the film, he no longer talks about a man who is raising a woman, but rather about a woman who is ready to take on responsibility. It will be a long way until then, but Affleck is doing everything right right at the end.

According to the lexicon of international films , it is a "multi-layered survival drama with excellent actors and atmospheric camera work that relies more on the internal tension between its main characters than on external thrills and also develops a sensitive story of emancipation."

Awards

Fantasy Filmfest 2019

Jerusalem Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for the Gabriel Sherover Foundation Award - Best International Film (Casey Affleck)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Light of My Life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 194824 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Daniel Hart scoring Casey Affleck's 'Light of My Life'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, January 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/08/06/light-of-my-life-soundtrack-details/
  4. ↑ http://www.dga.org/~/media/Files/Production%20List/CPLBAFull%20pdf
  5. ^ A b Owen Gleiberman: Berlin Film Review: Casey Affleck's 'Light of My Life'. In: Variety, February 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Panorama 2019: Times of Awakening. In: berlinale.de, January 21, 2019.
  7. ↑ https://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.html?film_id=201910933
  8. ↑ Light of My Life. In: kviff.com. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  9. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18526516.html
  10. ^ David Rooney, 'Light of My Life': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/light-of-my-life-review-casey-affleck-berlinale-1202042375/
  12. ↑ Light of My Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 27, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ↑ competition. In: fantasyfilmfest.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  14. ↑ International Competition. In: jff.org.il. Retrieved July 24, 2019.