Shepard & Dark

[The] aesthetic structure creates a haunting sense of the simultaneously wonderful and sad feelings both men have about lives and loves now gone, never to be recaptured.

The ups and downs of a decades-long friendship are charted with warmth and sensitivity in Shepard and Dark.

The good-looking, easygoing doc settles in with its two subjects, offering not just an intimate perspective on the playwright's biography but some touching reflections on the comforts and perils of long-term friendship.

Treva Wurmfeld's documentary addresses, and acutely analyzes, the way friendship can bend, and occasionally snap, over time.

There’s tension as the two hole up in Santa Fe to work on the book, but the bottom-line feeling is of two old friends, now two old men, who have found their place in each other’s complicated lives.

The film points toward a rich and complicated story that only partly makes it onto the screen.

Despite its unusual beginnings, the friendship doesn't offer much narrative juice.