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    Movie review: Afghan school rises above country's tumult in 'Angels Are Made of Light'

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Aug 12, 2019 3 minutes

    What is life like on the ground for ordinary people in another culture, another world? That's been the bread and butter of observational documentaries for forever, but almost never is it done with the kind of beauty and grace that filmmaker James Longley brings to his Afghanistan-set "Angels Are Made of Light."

    As his 2006 Oscar-nominated "Iraq in Fragments" demonstrated, MacArthur fellow Longley, who serves as his own cinematographer as well as directs, has an almost magical ability to envelope us in

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