{"id":577526,"date":"2025-11-18T03:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577526\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:58:13","slug":"apple-tvs-andrea-gibson-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577526\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV’s Andrea Gibson Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf there\u2019s one thing audiences will get from Ryan White<\/a>\u2019s new documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, it\u2019s that it\u2019s a truly beautiful love story. Poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley found each other through the beauty of words and honest, emotional expression. Their life together in Colorado is full of friends, fun and humor. In an increasingly hostile world, these two queer people were able to carve out an existence for themselves that is happy and authentic to them. Andrea and Megan are gentle with each other throughout the film, even as it becomes clear that cancer puts an expiration date on their domestic bliss. <\/p>\n

\n\tAndrea died<\/a> in July of this year in Megan\u2019s arms, a devastating ending to their story. Come See Me in the Good Light (available on Apple<\/a> TV) premiered at Sundance several months before and thankfully, Andrea was able to see it on the big screen. It\u2019s difficult to imagine what it must have felt like to watch their whole life in living color, already knowing that it was likely going to end.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tCome See Me in the Good Light\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Bottom Line<\/p>\n

\tEarns your tears.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRelease date:<\/strong> Friday, Nov. 14 (Apple TV)
Featuring: <\/strong>Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley
Director:<\/strong> Ryan White
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 hour 49 minutes\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt takes incredible strength to embark on making a film while one\u2019s health is deteriorating rapidly. And yet Andrea is a delightful and funny presence onscreen, whether they\u2019re trying to fix their broken mailbox, working on a poem or just joking around with Megan. Andrea\u2019s sincerity and fearlessness serves to lighten the heaviness of their story. We quickly learn that Andrea has ovarian cancer and are forced to watch their body deteriorate before our eyes. But thankfully Andrea\u2019s spirit remains intact as they tell the story of their life and their journey with spoken word poetry. Their poems are simple in language with an undeniable emotional complexity, vulnerably embracing sentiment. A chunk of the film focuses on Andrea\u2019s desire to perform spoken word poetry on stage in front of a crowd one last time. When we finally see them take the stage, it\u2019s a moving, triumphant moment.<\/p>\n

\n\tCome See Me in the Good Light is relentlessly emotional and intentionally uplifting, with an intimate quality that makes it feel like a home movie. We are rarely treated to such an affectionate portrait of a treasured queer artist embracing the last days of their life with a loving spouse. Knowing how personal the project was to everyone involved \u2014 from participants to producers and even the director \u2014 wraps the whole film in a palpable sense of warmth. These circumstances make the doc difficult to evaluate in any objective sense \u2014 it\u2019s a wonder that it was made at all, and so tenderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite skillfully captures a portrait of a queer poet who wanted the world to know how much they loved and were loved by those around them. It\u2019s an unapologetically sentimental film, knowingly pulling at every single heartstring, encouraging us to open up the emotional floodgates and give ourselves over to Andrea\u2019s resilient positivity. Come See Me in the Good Light wants to be life-affirming more than anything else, especially for artists in queer and marginalized communities. The streaming era has not been kind to intimate documentaries<\/a> like these, buried under mountains of flashier content. Andrea hoped the film would help people in the future, and there\u2019s no doubt that it will, as long as they know where to find it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s one thing audiences will get from Ryan White\u2019s new documentary Come See Me in the Good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1662,11457,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-577526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-documentaries","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115568699490863127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}