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It's Not Yet Dark

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Ireland · 2016
1h 18m
Director Frankie Fenton
Starring Simon Fitzmaurice, Colin Farrell
Genre Documentary

Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice is diagnosed with motor neuron disease, a degenerative disorder. He refuses to let his illness interfere with his goal: to direct a feature film. He can only communicate using his eyes, but through the use of a computer, he soldiers on.

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80

Village Voice by Craig D. Lindsey

It’s Not Yet Dark is an uplifting portrait of a debilitated man driven to excel by a relentless desire to live life and love those who surround him.

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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

It’s the questions that Fenton can’t answer — maybe even the questions he doesn’t mean to ask — that make It’s Not Yet Dark such an illuminating experience.

70

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Not a film for cynics, It’s Not Yet Dark at times risks overplaying its heart-on-sleeve emotions, as Fitzmaurice also hazards in his writing. But both subject and execution here summon the skill, as well as sincerity, required to overcome skepticism.

80

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

Although “Dark” eschews overly graphic depiction of the more horrific physiological aspects of MND and barely touches upon the financial toll the illness clearly takes, this is as real a human story as it gets.

75

RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

This movie shows how Fitzmaurice was able to direct the picture — scheduling the shot so that he could efficiently marshal his energy was a big part of the process, as of course was the “eye gaze” computer.

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