A Ghost Story

Acclaimed director David Lowery explores loss, human longing and connection in a film starring Academy Award winner Casey Affleck ( Manchester by the Sea) and Rooney Mara, who played Lucy in Lion and Lisbeth in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Compared to some of the big budget films Lowery has worked on ( Pete’s Dragon),

A Ghost Story cost coconuts to make. Affleck spends much of his time wearing a white bed sheet. Yet this only reinforces the sense that this is a story of meaning rather than thrill.

Affleck– his character’s name is never mentioned on screen – dies in a car accident at the beginning of the film and his ghost returns to the family home to console his wife. Mostly, this bed-sheeted ghost is a passive watcher of his wife’s dealings with grief.

Of the film, a critic for the BBC wrote: “The movie is pushing toward something simple and pure, almost elemental in the way that spaces are haunted by the memories they contain, and how we may leave those spaces but they never leave us”.