Kim and Bill live in Baltimore and are splitting up by the time Abby, their daughter, a college student, comes home for the vacation. Bill and Kim are surprised by the visit of their niece, Taryn, runing away from her parents’ house in Northern Ireland. After Putty Hill, screened in IndieLisboa in 2010, Matthew Porterfield returns with I Used To Be Darker, a film that sensitively portrays human relationships within an American family and that proves the talent of a filmmaker in full command of a contemporary narrative cinema that has no pudency about fetching documentary devices ‚ real décors and non-professional actors ‚ to tell us, with vividness and accuracy, the reality in which we live. I see real people that I love, Porterfield wrote about the film. The emotions predominate, the stories are about people we love, the songs are there to be listened to. (C. C.)
