A Ghost Story (2017)
This is the story of a ghost and the house he haunts. (thefilmstage.com)
Genres: Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Directed By: David Lowery
Written By: David Lowery
Starring: Casey Affleck, Will Oldham, Barlow Jacobs, Rooney Mara, Kesha, Grover Coulson, Tanya Foster, Carlos Bermudez, Liz Cardenas Franke, Augustine Frizzell, McColm Cephas Jr., Daniel Escudero
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A Ghost Story belongs to 22 collections
1. Ghosts (public: moderated by mpowell - 6 stars)
2. A24 (public: moderated by elhenzo - 5 stars)
3. The Next Picture Show Podcast (public: moderated by trippingly - 2 stars)
4. Haunted House (public: moderated by Moribunny - 1 star)
5. Heaven (public: moderated by BeeDub)
6. 90th Academy Reminder List (2017) (public: moderated by cowfrappe)
7. Great Indie Movies (public: moderated by allenrankin)
8. 2018: Complete Watchlist (private: SageSledge - 1 star)
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10. Most Loved of 2017 (private)
11. 2017 Films to Watch (private: kendell)
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13. Best of 2017 (private: kendell)
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15. 2017: Year in Review (private: magnolia1283)
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| Oct 22 | xVLBrm | 80 50% |
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| Oct 09 | willjordan | 87 90% |
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| Oct 07 | rilla12 | 75 37% |
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fra paolo | 78 86% |
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Short, and quite to the poignant point, the film raises large questions that it shies away from answering. Instead it chooses to highlight the hollowness of any human attempt to explain our mortal predicament.
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| Oct 04 | craziballr | 75 69% |
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| Oct 01 | Erwinnator | 70 60% |
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ecalder | 60 46% |
| Sep 26 | DamienTC | 65 24% |
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| Sep 22 | vv238 | 83 79% |
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A very unique film about death, time, and our place on the Earth. It's extremely long shots and deliberately snail-like pace let you take in everything and ponder on the questions it asks. I wish it had revealed more of the character until the final act but I understand this was done intentionally.
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Misery | 75 60% |
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rehasavin | 93 87% |
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kubrick.k | 80 17% |
| Sep 13 |  |
PDM.82 | 74 23% |
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Although 'A Ghost Story' has it's moments, I found the story to be too tedious and the pace of the film too slow. The ideas of the script are highly original with themes of love, life and death. An experimental film into the supernatural that may not be for everyone. At times the movie is just too monotonous. The cinematography by Andrew Droz Palermo is great and my favorite part of the movie. 'A Ghost Story' is at times a haunting experience and a mundane meditation of life after death.
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| Sep 10 |  |
oykucengiz | 89 94% |
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noiz | 77 80% |
| Sep 10 | swanstep | 95 88% |
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| Sep 08 |  |
karlson | 78 70% |
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Adam P-D | 60 68% |
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I love the tone of this film but if I was at that party with Will Oldham, I’d have excused myself to go find another conversation. Such an excruciatingly boring scene! The period stuff is a bit sloppy too (aesthetically as well as politically).
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| Sep 07 | slatenf | 73 43% |
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| Sep 02 | sexmoneylies | 7 56% |
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| Aug 28 | Tigertemprr | 80 83% |
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| Aug 26 |  |
Judgen Crow | 100 91% |
| Aug 26 |  |
SageSledge | 100 94% |
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Wordless in its beauty and hypnotic in its form, "A Ghost Story" is unlike anything you've ever seen.
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| Aug 25 | eniloo | 95 74% |
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| Aug 25 |  |
poeticfilm | 8 77% |
| Aug 25 | qualityloss | 82 41% |
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| Aug 23 | Tantofaz | 53 51% |
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| Aug 19 |  |
backwardsuit | 71 51% |
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Can you film a cosmic poem about life, the universe & everything without being pretentious? Yes, just watch Le quattro volte or Uncle Boonmee e.g. This hipsterized attempt is trying so hard I can't really call it seamless or humble in a way that elevated those efforts. I can't really say it fails either. It has some beautiful haunting moments & works well as a refreshing antidote to a lot of American cinema. Just too forced & single-minded to be as deep or reflective as it seems to think it is.
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| Aug 19 | Scene_It | 50 35% |
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| Aug 14 | TwistdHammer | 70 42% |
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| Aug 13 | greghend | 85 79% |
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A meditation on loss and longing unbounded by time, this one stayed with me long after it was over.
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dst7175 | 20 12% |
| Aug 11 | r-koba | 73 66% |
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IeuanDP | 75 67% |
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cemsancak | 76 7% |
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igormachete | 83 74% |
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kcknz | 40 11% |
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i really don't like this type of hipster films. it's like saying: "look at this ghost wearing two-hole bed sheet throughout the film! how sad is his shattered destiny?" seriously what kind of travel (back in time) was that? actually i was kinda relaxed when i learned the inspirations of this film: under the skin, uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives and post tenebras lux. i'm sure now this "haunted house" indie format is not for me. i prefer indies like 'frank'.
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| Aug 04 | SoMuchLess | 100 75% |
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pmpfe | 87 78% |
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astrakhan | 76 43% |
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Dudes with sheets on their heads... non-linear narrative... how am I supposed to understand any of this stuff? Not for me, thanks.
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| Jul 15 | PianoSama | 80 94% |
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Snufkin88 | 66 18% |
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| Jul 05 | busravandort | 85 13% |
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| Jul 04 |  |
bruinsfan | 54 25% |
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Alex Watkins | 4 73% |
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Retains just enough ambiguity to remain a touching evocation of the ineffable and ephemeral nature of love. The way it slowly disposes of its protagonists until they're dwarfed by time and the universe is admirably bold. If it has a weakness, it's that goddamn Will Oldham scene; no need to state the film's central thesis through the mouth of an incredibly annoying character.
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| Jul 04 |  |
liljaxever | 78 78% |
| Jul 03 | cloondog | 36 17% |
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jackinthebox | 80 78% |
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| Jun 23 | mcclap | 83 75% |
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themadelf66 | 76 60% |
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closedmouth | 80 64% |
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A few annoying aspects, and I'm no Rooney Mara fan (for some reason it really bugged me that I could immediately tell she'd never binge-eaten before) but it works as a whole piece and is often transcendentally beautiful.
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SantaClaus | 65 47% |
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| Jun 09 | nobamba | 70 57% |
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A flawed masterpiece. Maybe on a rewatch I'll change the score.
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| Jun 08 |  |
k.t | 71 51% |
| Jun 07 | Parasite | 65 69% |
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The passing of time was shown great, and along with soundtrack is the best part of the movie, but in order to highlight that, the first 40 minutes or so were slowed to the torturous pace. The other problem is the story itself: although being touching beyond belief, it contrives to break its own foundation of love and decision by legitimizing not only cyclic but also predetermined cosmological model. Main theme means nothing, if you have no choice. It could have been so much better...
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| Jun 05 | Russ Bedford | 72 69% |
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| Jun 04 | mabb0tt | 90 79% |
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| Jun 03 | chengming | 85 92% |
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Intriguing and novel way to deal with its subject matter, and beautiful use of slow, painting-like shots that let the (little) music take center stage.
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allenrankin | 90 91% |
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I was expecting the story to zoom on to the end of time, instead it is much smaller in scope.
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| Apr 01 | FilmNoob | 7 83% |
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lowery has called it BEETLEJUICE or POLTERGEIST by way of apichatpong or tsai, and sure, the uncanny resonance of its central conceit brings e.g. BOONMEE to mind. his muse is still malick however, rerouting the language of the ghost genre toward an evocation of being in time, provoking heideggerian angst with a visualisation of the eternal recurrence. ultimately, the nihilism embodied by will oldham (in a deliberately obnoxious film's most deliberately obnoxious scene) is firmly dismissed.
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| Mar 07 | mahvolus | 75 82% |
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educhristoph | 75 63% |
| Mar 06 | intheboolite | 65 38% |
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| Mar 05 | bhajansunlo | 88 89% |
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It is easy to make a dull heavy-handed film about ambitious topics like love, loss, and passage of time. A ghost story though is refreshingly original and one of the rare films that can put you in a contemplative state.
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| Mar 05 | doublek | 85 83% |
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mattorama12 | 61 40% |
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On the one hand, it was extremely slow at points. But, on the other hand, the most interesting thing about the movie was the way it made you think about time itself, and I don't think it would have had the same effect without some of the tedious scenes. So credit for achievement in that regard, but just did not leave me with too much else.
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The irreplaceability of a love lost. The unceasing passage of time. The fragility of existence. The fear of being forgotten. The fear of infinity and the vastness of the universe. Simple ideas whose depiction are executed powerfully with haunting imagery that ranks among the year's most potent and memorable. Melancholia and euphoria, hope and hopelessness. A briefer and more subdued 'Enter the Void,' I suppose. This one just made me really sad.
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| Feb 18 | adamja | 75 77% |
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imajidkord | 70 89% |
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cenk k. | 86 88% |
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sayyedbagher | 78 86% |
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BadCosmonaut | 7 86% |
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brickwall | 75 69% |
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Terrifying, the scariest ghost movie in ages
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