Review of Light of My Life (2019) by Jluis_001 — 02 Sep 2019

When I read the synopsis part of me thought of The Road. The beginning reaffirmed it to me but soon the movie gets its own voice, which was something good.

Light of My Life tells the story of a father and his young daughter who is pretending to be his son. The reason for this is a global plague that attacks only women and because of it pretty much all of the women have died.

Up to that point everything looks good but Casey Affleck makes several mistakes and the film falls several times and his decision to impose an indie horror style that has been seen too much in recent years makes it a bit repetitive in narrative and visual terms. The fastest comparison that comes to mind is ''It Comes At Night'' and that's where perhaps the key problem of this film lies: Affleck confuses things and in his apparent attempt to make a more artistic film loses the rhythm too many times and the narrative slowness doesn't make it any favors. More than once the pace will test your patience.

In general terms it never ceases to be a good film, nothing exceptional but nothing disappointing either.

I liked it although I wasn't amazed as I expected however as a filmmaking debut it was good enough.