Bright Lights, HBOs Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Documentary, Is Bittersweet and Therapeutic
L-R: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Bright Lights, a portrait of the perpetually intertwined lives of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, would be an intimate, moving documentary in any context. But after Fisher’s recent death at age 60 and the immediate subsequent passing of her mother, Reynolds, at 84, Bright Lights is now infused with so much bittersweetness that, at times, it hurts to watch it.
Bright Lights first screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was originally slated to debut on HBO in March, but the back-to-back holiday-season losses of its subjects prompted the network to air it sooner: specifically, this Saturday night at 8.
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