M E D I A   Q U O T E S     from Alexander Sokurov, director of "Russian Ark" and "Mother and Son":

"This is a light-bearing work, professionally bright...I am sure that such films doubtlessly have to be made."    

from Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle:

"An astounding piece of filmmaking of personal vision!"

"In Return to Light, they have taken the cinema of personal expression to an extreme few filmmakers approach."

"The movie [Return to Light]...feels more like a work from one of the Russian filmmakers the couple [the Pearses] admires or a surrealistic piece in the tradition of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali."

"...challenging, idiosyncratic, surreal..."

 

from Brian Huberman, Film Professor & Media Coordinator, Rice University, & award-winning filmmaker:

"Their film is just a sumptuous offering, a vast array of wonderful images and a tremendous soundtrack. It’s a great experience."

"It’s a unique film to be presented in our historic moment....The strong spiritual agenda of the Pearses in this film, for me, places them in a tradition of the arts that takes me back before the time of cinema, to the time of the Romantic period. I think of the works of the great painters that are trying to engage us with great irrational forces...."

"Part of the strength of their work is that they are their work."

"Cinema is the one art form that has its beginnings in the profane and is slowly moving towards the sacred in our culture. Clearly the Pearses are comfortable with being in the vanguard...of that journey."

 

from Dean Dalton, Executive Producer KUHF 88.7FM Classical Music/NPR & host of the "Morning Show":

"What an interesting and unique [film] - ‘unique’ is an overused word - in this case, this is truly a unique work...a unique vision."

"This film really makes its own category. It is very personal and very spiritual."