Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson describe their last film, Ghostlight, as an “audition” for the movie they were planning to make next — Mouse, which premieres Feb. 13 at the Berlinale. With Ghostlight, they’d cast a real-life family of local Chicago actors to portray a fictional family in mourning and cobbled together a $500,000 budget to prove that they could direct their more ambitious script-on-ice for, if not quite as little money, less than what their producers at the time had indicated. But then Ghostlight launched at Sundance to raves, swiftly sold to IFC Films and pulled off a scrappy awards campaign — nabbing multiple Spirit Award noms and a spot on the National Board of Review’s Top 10 indies list. The movie cemented O’Sullivan and Thompson as filmmakers to watch.
“It was building to Mouse in a lot of ways,” says Thompson, even as, “ironically, Ghostlight grew in a way all its own.
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