{"id":75038,"date":"2011-11-10T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=75038"},"modified":"2011-11-09T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T02:28:19","slug":"afi-fest-light-of-mine-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/11\/10\/afi-fest-light-of-mine-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI Fest: Light of Mine Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Light of Mine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Brett Eichenberger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Ji Tanzer, Rebecca Sanborn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An in-competition entry in the recent and\u00a0ongoing AFI Fest&#8217;s &#8220;Breakthrough&#8221; section, which spotlights movies located solely through the festival&#8217;s cold submission process, director Brett Eichenberger&#8217;s &#8220;Light of Mine&#8221; is a reflective, strikingly photographed little relationship drama about a man grappling with impending blindness, and the notion of how to forge a path for a future he won&#8217;t be able to see.<\/p>\n<p>After being diagnosed with hereditary optic neuropathy, photographer Owen (Ji Tanzer) is despondent. Already\u00a0suffering from vision loss in one eye, he&#8217;s told to expect fairly rapid deterioration in his remaining eye. His wife, Laura (Rebecca Sanborn), aims to be as supportive as possible, but doesn&#8217;t know how to coax Owen out of his low-grade depression. She suggests a trip to Yellowstone National Park, but at first he rebuffs her. Eventually, though, he accedes, and the pair &#8212; already existing\u00a0by a financial string &#8212; sling together a hastily planned trip, stopping off to visit friends along the way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that this story is thin &#8212; a bouillabaisse of road movie, disease-of-the-week and romantic reconciliation cliches. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that it couldn&#8217;t be meted out with a bit more skill and tradecraft. Screenwriter Jill Remensnyder, however, never quite seizes upon some deeper nuggets or truths about the personalities of her characters, and so &#8220;Light of Mine&#8221;&#8216;s leads feel a bit like ciphers. Also, its dramatic conflict over Laura&#8217;s desire to have a child feels strangely underexploited, given the natural parallels of life closure and rebirth that it offers. There&#8217;s mesmeric, underplayed intimation and then there&#8217;s the absence of dramatic engagement, and &#8220;Light of Mine&#8221;\u00a0not infrequently\u00a0feels like the latter.<\/p>\n<p>By and large, though, &#8220;Light of Mine&#8221; still works as a mood piece. The film&#8217;s technical package is superb for such a low-budget effort. Location filming in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana provides for plenty of beautiful backdrops, and while it&#8217;s true that Eichenberger and cinematographers Patrick Neary and Michael Ferry favor sunset and magic hour compositions that generally tug at the heart in a manner more expressionistic than effectively, chronologically ordered, there&#8217;s no denying the movie&#8217;s impact on this front. 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