Hebden Bridge Film Festival Presents: Come See Me in the Good Light with Q&A

Dir: Ryan White
104 mins
Rating TBC
Hebden Bridge Film Festival is delighted to invite you to a special screening of Come See Me in the Good Light with Q&A.
This multiple award-winning film is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and their unshakable love for each other.
Directed by Ryan White and produced by Tig Notaro, the film chronicles Gibson and their partner Meg Falley, taking life pretty much three weeks at a time all the while giving us jewels along the way as Gibson continues to write and perform old and new poetry.
Compelling archive footage of Gibson’s life and career tracks the humble beginnings of small gigs to becoming a kind of rock star of the spoken word world, with sell out tours of large venues and cheering, fervent fans. It explains why they were ultimately appointed Colorado’s Poet Laureate.
The film invites us to ask ourselves: What is poetry? How does it make meaning? Why does it offer solace like so few other art forms?
Gibson is mesmerising as they use poetry to work through their complicated feelings about their diagnosis all the while wrapped in the warm embrace of both their extended chosen queer family of ex-lovers, friends and biological family and of course, Megan, the love of their life.
This is what makes the film so poignant and heartfelt. “Come See Me in the Good Light” makes viewers hope against all odds that Gibson and Falley get to spend much more time together despite their diagnosis and the cruel inequities of the medical system in the US. Despite all that this is a film filled with laughter, wonder and bursting with hope.
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