A Ghost Story (2017)
| Duration |
1h 32m |
Rating (UK) |
12A |
| Source of story |
An original screenplay |
| Writers/Script |
David Lowery |
| Additional Info |
I saw this at a screen in Madrid in English with Spanish subtitles. While waiting outside I watched the other dozen or so people leave with bemused expressions on their faces. |
| Director |
David Lowery |
| Starring |
Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara |
| Elevator Pitch |
A couple live in a suburban wood framed house in rural America. The husband dies in a car accident and as a ghost, (white sheet and all) returns to the house and watches events occur, his wife leaving, other families arriving, time passing. |
| Content |
His wife eats a pie, the normal things of family lives happen. The ghost observes and occasionally intervenes. There are curious time shifts. Beer is drunk, the husband and wife rub up against each other. |
| A View |
Predictably the critics loved this, and it did provide some food for thought, but the more I thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed. It looked like an idea which might have made a short film but instead bored us shitless for an hour and a half (My wife says it was not that bad). |
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