A Ghost Story - 2017 (Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara DIR: David Lowery)

I checked the first 3 pages of the film forum and couldn't find a thread for this.

That's the most beautiful trailer I've seen in a while, plus I really like the aspect ratio and the song. I'm not expecting this to be a horror that will scare me, more an existential drama that will haunt me.

Warning about the trailer: It features something which I'm sure is part of the set-up of the movie, but something that maybe some people will want to avoid regardless.

If anyone else is wondering about the song, like I was, here it is...

July 7th release in the US, I can't see anything for Ireland yet though.

This was released over the last few days in the US. So far it's doing well critically, including 86/100 on Metacritic, and rated 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

I think it's coming out in Ireland on August 11th, but this will probably be on limited release. If anyone knows of a cinema that will be showing it, maybe post it here please.

Noise Annoys

There's a poster for it in the Lighthouse at the moment. They'll be showing it.

JaMarcusHustle

Surprised there's no thread on this that I could find, though I could have missed it. It was released here on Friday.

Just back from seeing this tonight. Absolutely fantastic experience. You won't be leaving the cinema singing and dancing, but a really beautiful, somewhat existential picture.

Soundtrack was excellent also.

Anybody else seen it?

Jesus Wept

Saw it. I was bored. I wanted to like it, I tried. I'm not looking for action or non stop cuts - some of the shots were excruciatingly long.

johnny_ultimate

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It's a beautiful film, although I confess that it was the second half that really got me. For the first, it was an intriguing but rather cold relationship story. Scenes like that long pie-eating one I don't think really work the way similarly long (or longer) takes work in some of the more masterly examples of slow cinema.

But I think once Lowery begins exploring it's more... metaphysical side I was hooked from there on out (although so-so about the Will Oldham rant ). I adore the way it sweeps through time with an edit or a character glancing in a different direction. It's a sad, overwhelming journey study of time and one ghost's lonely passage through it. I've read a few people complaining that the film feels very sterile or insincere... I genuinely felt it carried that deep but hard-to-define emotional weight you get from a lot of great cinema. And visually it's gorgeous - despite the silliness of the man in a sheet, it proves a genuinely (ahem) haunting visual motif that never feels out of place or as ludicrous as it actually is.

JaMarcusHustle

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I adore the way it sweeps through time with an edit or a character glancing in a different direction.

Hardly a spoiler, but I'll cover it anyway. I loved the scene where

the Ghost watches Rooney Mara leave the house over and over again, all in one shot. Simple but ingenious way of illustrating a long period of time passing.

Going to see this in the Lighthouse on Friday night, I've been looking forward to it for months.