Checked out the movie A Ghost Story which is an experimental, art-house film that takes some patience and willingness to accept long quiet scenes of nothing happening. I was impatient with it, then it began to build on me, and I wound up kind of liking it. It’s a tough sit though and you may not have patience for it. I caught it on streaming (it came out theatrically earlier this year).
The movie stars Casey Affleck and Roony Mara as a married couple… and then he gets killed and comes back as a ghost in a white sheet. A literal white sheet with holes cut out for his eyes. He isn’t seen by anyone so he just lurks around the house watching his wife until she moves out and then watches various people who move into the house.
Rooney Mara eats a whole pie in one take and then throws it up. So that’s exciting.
The movie is sedate and quiet and is supposed to be a profound study of love, loss, life, death, and legacy. It has its own concept of time, slowing down, speeding up, and reversing. It took time for me to start feeling what the director was doing, and eventually I mostly did. I got it. The sedate tone ultimately works but it’s still 90 minutes of quiet introspection. By a ghost in a sheet who says nothing.
Apparently that was Casey Affleck under the sheet most of the time. So that’s exciting.
I dunno… it’s an alright and interesting film but only if you have a lot of patience for art-house pretensions. Or if you want to see an actor covered by a white sheet for the bulk of its 90 minutes.
Score: 78