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I wandered intoGhostlightearly one afternoon this past January at the Sundance Film Festival.
I didnt even know what genre it belonged to.
(For some reason, I had a vague thought that it might be a nature documentary.
This turned out to be hilariously incorrect.)
For much of its running time, the film only hints at whats actually troubling Dan and his family.
(Some of the more annoying movie twists work in this fashion.)
InGhostlight, however, it feels emotionally true, because the family itself refuses to acknowledge whats happened.
They, too, are dancing around their trauma understandably so, because its too awful to bear.
But its actually more than that its fantastical.
Thats where the filmmaking comes in.
