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‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Review: A Luminous Portrait of Two Poets Navigating an Incurable Diagnosis
Comedian Tig Notaro was sure a film about the couple reckoning with mortality would make a rending but also affirming film. She was right.
“ Come See Me in the Good Light ” director Ryan White has made a documentary that mirrors the way he felt when he first arrived at the home of spoken word artist Andrea Gibson, who has been diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer, and their spouse, poet Megan Falley. There’s a closeness here that allows viewers to spend a year at the poets’ home in Longmont, Co.; to accompany the couple on oncologist visits and chemo treatments; and to hover around their bed as the pair ponder the silly and the utterly serious. And archival footage shows the young, shy and emotionally wracked poet who grew up queer in Maine, beginning to rock the spoken word circuit.
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