A Ghost Story

A Ghost Story has it all: romance, metaphysics, and Rooney Mara eating pie for five minutes.

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It’s a singular feat of enthralling storytelling that I would say is going to leave a lasting impression centuries after everyone involved has passed away, but as Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) ponders in the film, humanity will eventually perish. It’s not a comforting thought, to say the least, but A Ghost Story leaves enough room for the viewer to find peace in the reflection.

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David Lowery’s feature follows a ghost on his long journey home.

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A Ghost Story may haunt you, even if you think the ghost looks silly.

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“A Ghost Story” has the structure and rhythm of a musical suite, with Lowry working variations on the same themes, the same characters, and the same location.

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Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite with their 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' director David Lowery in a poetic meditation on time, memory and spiritual connection that is utterly true to its title.

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Oscar-winner and costar Rooney Mara turn David Lowery's ambitious supernatural love story into one of the most moving films of the year.

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Rooney Mara co-stars in director David Lowery’s odd, beautiful little story of loss and acceptance.

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The hereafter is a slow, subtle affair in David Lowery’s evocative followup to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, in which bedsheet-clad Affleck watches over bereaved partner Rooney Mara.

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Director David Lowery reunites with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, defying horror movie conventions in this delicate portrait of a restless spirit.

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The ghost, on the other hand, grows ever more imposing, and the movie’s most touching spectacle — it’s also the funniest — is that of C standing at the window and waving to another ghost, in the adjacent house.

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A Ghost Story leads you down a path that allows for personal reflection, which will either sooth lost souls or scare them away.

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By the standards of the traditional ghost story, A Ghost Story isn’t much of one. By the standards of the moody art-house meditation on love, loss, memory, forgetting, attachment, letting go and the nature of eternity, it’s pretty darn great.

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I’ve heard of an actor losing himself in a role, but I’ve never seen one so literally and figuratively lost on-screen, to moving effect.

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The classic cheap Halloween costume--a bedsheet with two holes for eyes--becomes a symbol of grief and longing in David Lowery's spooky-somber chamber piece A Ghost Story.

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Some, no doubt, will find Lowery’s playfully surreal experiment (a ghost story told from the POV of the ghost) haunting, lyrical, and moving. Others (ahem, guilty as charged) will just find it maddening, inscrutable, and alienating. Check it out, then take your side in the debate.

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After the success of his studio-made Pete’s Dragon, Lowery was wise to call up the co-stars of his breakthrough indie film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, for repeat duty in his next, more experimental project. But a viewer can be forgiven for coming away wondering little more than: Ain’t them sheets ghosts?

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“Every love story is a ghost story,” David Foster Wallace wrote more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, a film that occasionally reaches a similar level of eloquence.

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This empty exercise in imitative long-take aestheticism fills its frames with endless repetitions on a visual gag.

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