I Used to Be Darker

Name: I Used to Be Darker
Genre: Drama, Music, Family
Released: October 4, 2013
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: October 4, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: When Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But they are trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby (Hannah Gross), just home from her first year of college. [Strand Releasing]

Director: Matthew Porterfield

Genre(s): Drama, Music, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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A.A. Dowd

Oct 2, 2013

Drenched in the evening glow of its urban and suburban backdrops, Darker comes alive in the dark, when its characters are drowning their sorrows in song, the sauce, or conversation. Read full review

Peter Keough

Oct 17, 2013

This sounds like it could be austere and schematic, but the affecting, authentic performances from the first-time actors make these characters thoroughly authentic. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Oct 10, 2013

It's a story of contained chaos, quietly observed — one that catches fire more in retrospect than in the viewing. Read full review

Nick Schager

Oct 1, 2013

The film exhibits a contemplative quiet and attentiveness to detail that enhances its issues of regret, bitterness, and confusion, many of which are rooted in thorny parent-child relations. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Oct 3, 2013

Mr. Porterfield might sometimes be too subtle for his own good, but by taking us on a low-key ramble through the ever-shifting feelings of a fractured family, he has woven a dreamy, detached chronicle of dissolution and renewal. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Oct 1, 2013

There’s still enough of merit here (particularly a movingly low-key finale that strikes just the right note of reconciliation and regret) to suggest that Porterfield has the chops to eventually hone his talents to a fine point. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 2, 2013

Where before, Porterfield seemed to be recording life as it’s lived, here, he’s mostly recording plot. The difference is glaring. Read full review

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