Light of My Life 2019

     A father and his young daughter journey through the outskirts of society.  It is a decade after a mysterious pandemic has wiped out half of the world’s population.  Almost all of the women in the world have been killed by a disease.  It’s extremely dangerous for this young girl and she looks and dresses like a boy to keep her safer.  Whenever the father and daughter meet someone, she is referred to as his son.  It is a struggle for them to be protected, keep together the bond that they have and retain their humanity.  There are roving male bandits looking for any human females. 

     Many times they take shelter and live in the woods.  They have rules, there is a secret place for their stash of extra items.  There is red alert when they are in extreme danger.  They try to hide from anyone that they meet in the woods or on a road.  For a while they take shelter in an abandoned house.  They stay a few days and narrowly escape from four men breaking into the house.  They hitch a ride and the father steals the car.  They are going to a house where the father’s grandparents used to live.  They learn that the home has been occupied by Tom and his two friends Calvin and Lemmy.  They have been living in the house for four years.  Tom tells the father about a safe place with friendly people where they could go.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)   
    
119 min, Drama directed and written by Casey Affleck with Anna Pniowsky, To Bower, Casey Affleck, Elizabeth Moss, Hrothgar Mathews, Timothy Webber, Thelonius Serrell-Freed, Jess James Pierce, Tommy Clarke, Lloyd Cunningham, Kory Grim, Michael Ching, Dee Jay Jackson, Sydnee Parker Anderson.

Note:  Imdb 6.6 out of 10 with 8,658 reviews, Roger Ebert 3* Sheila O’Malley, Rotten Tomatoes 81% with 53 critics 74% with 351 audience scores, RollingStone 3 1/2* out of 5* David Fear, Metacritic 67 out of 100 with 16 critic reviews (positive 12 mixed 11, negative 5), 6 out of 10 with 32 user scores (positive 16, mixed 11, negative 5), Amazon 3.6* out of 5* with 1237 reviews, Letterboxd 3.5* out of 5*.

Special Note:  In Berlin at the Berlinale-Premiere, Casey Affleck said he began writing the screenplay 10 years prior to filming.  Principal photography was in British Columbia’s Okanagan.  Casey Affleck also wrote, directed and starred in I’m Still Here 2010.  Elizabeth Moss as the girl’s mother and Anna Pniowsky as the girl are the only females in this film.