Title: A Ghost Story
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Director: David Lowery
Production Company: Sailor Bear | Zero Trans Fat Productions | Ideaman Studios | Scared Sheetless
Summary/Review:
I’ll say it up front that this movie is not at all scary as it is basically Casey Affleck wearing a sheet with eye holes and standing still for most of its 90-minute run time. But it is a movie that cinematically deals with the ideas of grief, mortality, and what last legacy we leave during our short time on earth. So that’s a little bit scary, or at least unnerving, right?
Affleck plays a man killed in a car crash who haunts his house, observing his wife (played by Rooney Mara), and then future occupants of the house, and time travels to a future when the house is replaced by a skyscraper and a past when the land is staked out by a pioneer family. The movie is very slow-moving with minimal dialogue so it really makes you ponder the passage of time. On the other hand, if you have a fetish for Rooney Mara eating pie, well this is definitely a movie for you.
This movie is an interesting experiment, and worth watching once, but I don’t think I need to ever revisit it.
Rating: ***
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