It's Not Yet Dark

Name: It's Not Yet Dark
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 4, 2017
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Colin Farrell, Ruth Fitzmaurice, Simon Fitzmaurice

2017

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FilmRise | Release Date: August 4, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Colin Farrell, Ruth Fitzmaurice, Simon Fitzmaurice

Summary: Soon after premiering his short film The Sound of People at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, promising young Irish director Simon Fitzmaurice was tragically diagnosed with motor neurone disease (ALS). At just 34 years old, he was given four years to live. Fitzmaurice and his wife were expecting their third child, and a career inSoon after premiering his short film The Sound of People at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, promising young Irish director Simon Fitzmaurice was tragically diagnosed with motor neurone disease (ALS). At just 34 years old, he was given four years to live. Fitzmaurice and his wife were expecting their third child, and a career in storytelling lay at his feet. Reeling from the shock, Fitzmaurice drew strength from his deepest desires—instead of being stuck in that painful moment, he realized his greatest defiance of ALS would be to direct his first feature film. Seven years later, despite total physical incapacitation, Fitzmaurice completed My Name is Emily (2015), directing it only with the use of his eyes. This emotional journey of self-realization and personal triumph over life-crushing adversity is nothing short of inspiring. All of it is captured with intimate home movies, photographs, and an affectionate voice-over by compatriot Colin Farrell, transporting us into Fitzmaurice’s creative world where every physical and psychological challenge is met with positivity and the desire to fulfill a dream.… Expand

Director: Frankie Fenton

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Duane Byrge

Aug 1, 2017

It's Not Yet Dark is a heartfelt and stirring documentary Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Aug 3, 2017

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. Read full review

Craig D. Lindsey

Aug 3, 2017

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Aug 4, 2017

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. Read full review

Helen T. Verongos

Aug 3, 2017

Painful to watch and uncomfortably intimate at times, perhaps by design, It’s Not Yet Dark could have been very dark indeed. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Aug 1, 2017

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. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 1, 2017

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. Read full review

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