Lisa Kennedy “Come See Me in the Good Light” director Ryan White has made a documentary that mirrors the way he felt when he first arrived at the home of spoken word artist Andrea Gibson, who has been diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer, and their spouse, poet Megan Falley.
Like their greeting, the documentary comes as an unexpected and welcoming invitation to stay awhile, even play awhile. If that seems at odds with the deep pain, the arduous treatments and the medical assurances of an early death they face, the film — which won the Sundance Film Festival’s Festival Favorite Award on Sunday evening — disabuses viewers of that notion.
There’s a closeness here that allows viewers to spend a year at the poets’ home in Longmont, Co.; to accompany the couple on oncologist visits and chemo treatments; and to hover around their bed as the pair ponder the silly and the utterly serious.
One could chalk up the doc’s intimacy to good, old-fashioned cinema vrité, but there’s something more lyrical at work. Gibson and Falley don’t pretend that White and his small crew aren’t in their home.
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