ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY
All The Light in the Sky
Joe Swanberg, 2013
Catalog No.: FTF-043
Length: 79 minutes
Jane Adams (HBO’s Hung, The Anniversary Party and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) stars as an actress living in Malibu who faces harsh realities of the industry as her age exempts her from more and more acting opportunities. Amidst this career and life crisis enters the actress’s niece, played by Sophia Takal (Green, Gabi on the Roof in July, and V/H/S), who arrives for a weekend stay and ushers in a complicated prism of emotional insecurities. Can the actress confront her fears, navigate complicated relationships, and figure out how to navigate mid-life in Hollywood?
Directed by Joe Swanberg
Written by Jane Adams & Joe Swanberg
Cinematography by Joe Swanberg
Original Music by Orange Mighty Trio
Featuring: Jane Adams, Sophia Takal, Kent Osborne, Allison Baar, Simon Barrett, Lindsay Burdge, Larry Fessenden, Lawrence Michael Levine, David Siskind, Susan Traylor & Ti West
Festivals: AFI, Florida Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Wisconsin FilmFestival, International Independent Film Festival, IndieFest, Northside Festival, Art House Film Festival, San Franciso Independent Film Festival
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PRESS
"This is Swanberg’s most accessible work to date."
-Andrew Barker, Variety
"Funny, poignant and true-to-life."
-Whitney Matheson, USA Today
"Adams delivers a blatantly personal, warts-and-all performance"
-Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"A refreshingly grown-up exploration of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads that’s stronger for never pushing its narrative or its finely wrought lead character in the direction of big moments or bullshit epiphanies."
-Nathan Rabin, The Dissolve
"All The Light In The Sky captures: a brilliant, simple snapshot – purely authentic and unadulterated."
-Matt Williams, Nashville Review
"With his solar measurements and celestial allusions, the real-life environmental entrepreneur David Siskind gives the drama a cosmic context, and Swanberg, who is also the cinematographer, makes luminous images to match."
-Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Classic Swanberg."
-Henry Stewart, The L Magazine