Ghostlight (2003)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 26
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For his feature debut, writer/director Christopher Herrmann chose a subject near and dear to his heart. Herrmann had been the biographer and a close friend of renowned choreographer Martha Graham before the dance legend passed away in 1991 at the age of 96. With Ghostlight, Herrmann pays tribute to Graham by recreating the events that preceded Phaedra. Graham is portrayed by drag queen Richard Move (who also co-wrote the script), and Ann Magnuson plays Barbara Rosen, a filmmaker who is permitted
Cast
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Richard Move
Martha Graham -
Ann Magnuson
Barbara Rosen -
Isaac Mizrahi
Alex -
Erick Kastel
James -
Mark Morris
Himself -
Deborah Harry
Herself -
Gila Zalon
Peggy -
Rob Besserer
Erick Hawkins -
Maryette Charlton
Helen Keller -
Kittson O'Neill
Linda -
Ernest Abuba
Noguchi Isamu -
Reid Hutchins
Principal Dancer -
Tres Bien Pollard
Principal Dancer -
Jennifer Binford
Principal Dancer -
Amy Piantaggini
Principal Dancer
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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (3)
Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception.
Top CriticAchieves substance as a historical document, an homage, an appreciation of the axis of empathy shared between larger- than-life women and the (frequently) gay men who venerate them.
Ms. Magnuson's consummate professionalism offers an unflattering contrast to Mr. Move's not-so-inspired amateurism.
A bizarre and campily amusing 'tribute.'
Real history and raunch poke through, but the thirtysomething Move is too vital to be Martha in her dotage.
An affectionate, witty tribute which also happens to be one of the best films about dance ever made.
It's a good-hearted dream of a film made all the more fascinating by virtue of its willful weirdness.
Even knowing [Move is] nearly a foot taller and considerably more robust than the real Graham, his performance is so completely realized that it radiates its own synthetic truth.
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