Light Years

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Light Years

2015

1h 29m

Drama

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Over the course of a day, Rose's fractured and distant family pulls back together. Yearning to reconnect, the family finds itself confronting the implications of its own devastating legacy.

Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

Treading that perilous line between wilfully artful and needlessly arty, Esther May Campbell's Light Years is a feature debut that's arresting and infuriating in equal measure

Rated: 3/5

Oct 10, 2016

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Poppy Doran

Little White Lies

This debut feature from Esther Campbell drowns in visual beauty but falls short in the plot and dialogue.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 26, 2016

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

Ventures Bristol way, digs around at the intersection of social and poetic realism, and emerges with several extraordinary images alongside handfuls of arthouse filler.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 23, 2016

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Rachel Brook

One Room With A View

Campbell's eye for a real rather than romanticised Britain - motorways, industrial parks, damp forests - is refreshing, yet Light Years fails to take hold until it's almost passed you by.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 18, 2019

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

‎There are greater stakes to be mined that the territory Kiley and company cover here, but by keeping the tone light, the film proves buoyant.

Nov 22, 2018

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Paul M. Bradshaw

Total Film

There are obviously a lot of bright futures among cast and crew, but the script lacks a nail of genuine emotion on which to hang all the pretty pictures.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 27, 2016

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Synopsis

Over the course of a day, Rose's fractured and distant family pulls back together. Yearning to reconnect, the family finds itself confronting the implications of its own devastating legacy.

Director: Esther Campbell
Producer: Wendy Bevan-Mogg, Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins, Andrew McVicar
Screenwriter: Esther Campbell
Production Co: Third Films, Finite Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 29m