Light Years

Three children and their distant, distracted father appear aimless and missing the glue that makes a family a unit. All are hobbled by neuroses and longing, yet it becomes clear that things weren't always this way and that the children's mother has recently become physically and mentally unable to live at home. With a pace and narrative rhythm that rewards contemplation, Light Years offers dazzling fractured moments to savour: a stolen kiss witnessed in glimpses as a speeding train passes; a golf ball spiralling into a hole, a mother and her children filing gracefully through a forest of silver birch trees. (London Film Festival)