“Ghostlight”: A tender and sensitive look at those sacrificed by the American dream

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If British cinema, from Mike Leigh to Ken Loach, knows how to superbly look at the castaways of the proletarian world, this is less the case for American productions, which are insensitive to these downgraded existences. The first quality of this fiction with its tender and acid humor is to restore to these ignored people the dignity they are due. Dan, an invisible navvy, a fifty-something husband whose marriage is fading and the father of an adolescent daughter with an exhausting revolt, joins an amateur theater company. Shakespeare's verses and the plot of "Romeo and Juliet" will awaken this sleeping beauty. Under the camera devoid of any trace of commiseration of the two filmmakers (first film together), the man will break his chrysalis and reclaim the meaning of his life. A discovery.