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      After Darkness

      R 2018 1h 38m Drama Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 11% 50+ Ratings Audience Score As the sun burns out and darkness shrouds the planet, a family must reckon with long-held grudges and heal painful memories from the past. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 06 Buy Now

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      Saint B An interesting premise that was ruined by bad family drama. Waste of time watching this boring garbage. I expected better out of this film. Especially out of Tim Daly. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/09/23 Full Review Audience Member 10 minutes building up to Sun going dark and 1hr 45 mins of watching a dysfunctional family. I don't need to watch a movie for that. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is so bad, I couldn't stop watching it. The production design and art direction are the worst I have EVER seen in my life. And that's the ONLY interesting thing about this film. The half star is for poor Kyra who is wasted here. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member *** Spoiler Alert*** I thought it was going to be an end of the world survival movie, but I was mistaken. It's not that at all. It centers around a family in which the parents suffer from some mental illness. They all live in a mansion and believe someone is coming to save them and bring them to "the caves". However, no one comes and they never do anything to save themselves. It was very boring. They all die. The end. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member First, this is not a narrative film; however, it was an interesting and promising artistic film adaptation of Byron's poem Darkness. While the film may be great for the literature/history buff and does have some artistic merit, for most audiences, it ultimately falls flat. The film gives little context about the event leading to the cataclysmic darkness, which kinda makes sense when taken in the historical context of the poem. Tangent: I did appreciate the scene with snow/ash as a subtle nod Mt. Tambora eruption of 1815, which initiated the "year without a summer", but part of the failings of the film is the subtly of the context which is starkly opposed to the drama of the relationships. Within this lack of context, the writer throws in a random suicide which occurred years prior, and LGTBQ relationship, both of which felt random, unexplained, and without enough context for empathy. While the script bordered the melodramatic (intensified by the lack of context for the tableaus and vignettes of various degrees of suffering), the actors gave honest performances which engaged the viewer. Where the film really succeeded was in the lighting, scene/sets, and cinematography. The cinematographer managed to capture the vast opulence of a massive estate while simultaneously giving the viewer the sensation of a shrinking impoverished environment (which most of us understand in the current SIP environment). Overall, the film played out less like a film and more like a visual score, with disparate notes loosely linked into a melody carried by the mise-en-scene, albeit the composition was far more Stravinsky than Beethoven. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I think they were going for a Waiting for Godot vibe, with desperate people waiting for a ride to safety from their awful lives. Fall flat. Kind of a mystery because of the cast - I saw who was in it and thought it couldn't be a dog with a cast like that, but alas, it was. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis As the sun burns out and darkness shrouds the planet, a family must reckon with long-held grudges and heal painful memories from the past.
      Director
      Batan Silva
      Producer
      Alan Pao, Kyra Sedgwick
      Screenwriter
      Fernando Diez Barroso
      Production Co
      Camellia Entertainment
      Rating
      R (Brief Disturbing Images|Some Language)
      Genre
      Drama, Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 15, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 38m
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