A Ghost Story (2017)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.33:1 92m
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara
Synopsis:
A young couple rents a clapboard house that may be haunted. He dies and returns as a sheeted ghost, but can't get her attention. She leaves a note before departing for good, but he can't get to it either. He is cut loose in time.
Review:
American cinema goes slow. Possibly one of the dullest movies ever made, this packs most of its dialogue into one scene in which a party animal expounds trite philosophical truisms about the ephemerality of human existence. The human story at its heart is lost early on, because cinema is a visual medium, and we cannot even see the protagonist's face, much less listen to his thoughts. We are left with a 'what if' scenario, whereby he fails to take the blinding white portal to the hereafter and remains a prisoner of the world. Quite why the next door neighbour made the same omission is a coincidence that goes unexplored, and the 'history repeats itself' conundrum is a common paradox in time-inflected narratives. The curvy edged 4:3 home movie format is another mystery, and since when does one repaint before moving out anyway? Formally, it gets one star for ambition, though quite what it is trying to say is unclear to the end.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.33:1 92m
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara
Synopsis:
A young couple rents a clapboard house that may be haunted. He dies and returns as a sheeted ghost, but can't get her attention. She leaves a note before departing for good, but he can't get to it either. He is cut loose in time.
Review:
American cinema goes slow. Possibly one of the dullest movies ever made, this packs most of its dialogue into one scene in which a party animal expounds trite philosophical truisms about the ephemerality of human existence. The human story at its heart is lost early on, because cinema is a visual medium, and we cannot even see the protagonist's face, much less listen to his thoughts. We are left with a 'what if' scenario, whereby he fails to take the blinding white portal to the hereafter and remains a prisoner of the world. Quite why the next door neighbour made the same omission is a coincidence that goes unexplored, and the 'history repeats itself' conundrum is a common paradox in time-inflected narratives. The curvy edged 4:3 home movie format is another mystery, and since when does one repaint before moving out anyway? Formally, it gets one star for ambition, though quite what it is trying to say is unclear to the end.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.33:1 92m
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara
Synopsis:
A young couple rents a clapboard house that may be haunted. He dies and returns as a sheeted ghost, but can't get her attention. She leaves a note before departing for good, but he can't get to it either. He is cut loose in time.
Review:
American cinema goes slow. Possibly one of the dullest movies ever made, this packs most of its dialogue into one scene in which a party animal expounds trite philosophical truisms about the ephemerality of human existence. The human story at its heart is lost early on, because cinema is a visual medium, and we cannot even see the protagonist's face, much less listen to his thoughts. We are left with a 'what if' scenario, whereby he fails to take the blinding white portal to the hereafter and remains a prisoner of the world. Quite why the next door neighbour made the same omission is a coincidence that goes unexplored, and the 'history repeats itself' conundrum is a common paradox in time-inflected narratives. The curvy edged 4:3 home movie format is another mystery, and since when does one repaint before moving out anyway? Formally, it gets one star for ambition, though quite what it is trying to say is unclear to the end.