In “Ghostlight,” opposite Dolly De Leon of “Triangle of Sadness,” Keith Kupferer excels as a grieving father giving Shakespeare his best shot.
I don’t know how they did it, but directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, working from O’Sullivan’s script, risked a hundred pitfalls in their new film “Ghostlight” and sidestepped nearly every one.
It’s openly reliant on big coincidences. Its protagonist, construction worker Dan, his mind on other things, walks by a storefront temporarily occupied by a microbudget theater troupe rehearsing Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Seconds later, Dan’s thrown into the cast because the company’s an actor short. He then keeps this endeavor a secret from his wife and daughter, for a while. Initially cast as Lord Capulet, this middle-aged newbie is shoved into the role of teenage Romeo.
Keith Kupferer, for starters. He’s playing an ordinary guy, somewhat beaten down by circumstance, bottled up by temperament. The actor doesn’t overdo anything, even when O’Sullivan’s lines underline a point or realization too neatly. Kupferer finds the right, watchful humor in the early rehearsal scenes, and honest pathos where it comes honestly.
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