All the Light in the Sky

You can also see this on Kanopy if you have access to this streaming service. It's where I found it.

Pretty boring. An actress not getting the roles any more due to getting older now has her niece come and stay who is an aspiring actress. There is a couple of rather odd, unnecessary and awkward nude scenes between the aunt and niece where they playfully interact while nude and laugh like its normal. It seemed a little gratuitous and felt quite obviously forced, especially the scene with the hose and taking the pictures. Like, is this common?

The key characters have the expected emotional journey, but its hard to say that journey takes the movie anywhere interesting. You get the feeling of where they hope it will go, but it just doesn't get there, or even close.

Also some bonus global warming/climate issues rolled in there for effect.

It's all pretty mid tbh.

Had I known that Jane Adams had done a film with the guy who wrote and directed Drinking Buddies and Win it All, I would've been on this way sooner. Jane Adams as like a little hidden gem of an actress for me. Even though I'd love for her to break out with bigger and better roles. She just seems to exude a certain realness that's often hard to transfer onto the screen. Even seeing her nude in this was the cutest non-sexual scene I've come across in a while. It's like watching real life.

But the end scene where her character Marie is cozying up with her neighbor Rusty on the couch was so damn sweet and authentic that it kinda blew me away. Their expressions, their gestures and how they talked to each other was as real as it gets. I felt like a voyeur watching these people and the intimacy they enjoyed in each other as friends.

Unfortunately, none of the other actors appealed to me in any way, but I could easily watch more of Marie and Rusty.

I always found acting performances about normal people far more impressive than ones about someone insane. Normal people have worries, memories, and flaws. Those are infinitely harder to embody than craziness, which so often acts as a substitute for actual personality. Marie (Jane Adams), the aging actress living on the shores of Malibu, feels natural, feels real. The people feel so organic that when two characters kiss, it's uncomfortable, like I was invading their privacy or something. What might turn some people off is the fact that nothing concrete actually happens. At first glance it just seems like an actress and her niece doing things around their house. But under the surface it's quite a thoughtful story about the prospect of aging, loneliness, and love, about how most doors close in life -- quietly and unknown to us.

Jane Adams stars in this boring look at an actress who lives in a dumpy condo with a great ocean view. That's about it. She has a niece come to visit and she talks to a couple guys.

She sits around the condo, goes out on a paddle board, drives around, and she talks and talks and talks, mostly about herself. There's also a truly boring guy who lectures on the pieces and parts of solar collectors and atmospheric testing equipment.

She and her group always seem to be drunk or high. Incredibly boring film with nice shots of the ocean.