HBO have brought forward the screening of Bright Lights the greatly anticipated documentary on inseparable mother and daughter Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher after their recently untimely deaths. Directed by Oscar winning documentarian Fisher Stevens and his co-director Alexis Bloom, the movie premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim.
After a screening at the New York Film Festival in October, the NY Times Film Critic Manohla Dargis wrote This very funny, engrossing movie couldn’t be more mainstream or more delectable. Intensely, at times squirmingly, intimate, it trots and sometimes meanders down twinned memory lanes as it revisits Ms. Reynolds’s and Ms. Fisher’s lives, their ups and downs, scandals and tchotchkes. The movie has too many dog reaction shots, but its glamour, drama, bedazzled soul and Hollywood history make objections irrelevant.
The movie will be screened on HBO in the US on Saturday January 7th the day after they are buried together. Have a large stack of Kleenex ready.
Labels: 2017, Carrie Fisher, culture, Debbie Reynolds, documentary, HBO
