A GHOST STORY

Cert 12 ★★★ Digital today, disc January 15

This supernatural melodrama sees last year’s best actor Oscar winner Casey Affleck acting under a bed sheet as a ghost, spending an age mourning his lost love Rooney Mara. Affleck is at his most furrowed and mumbling even before his character suffers an early death. Tastefully sombre, this mournful meditation on life is almost provocative in avoidance to engage in crowd-pleasing drama. And for all the grand cosmic sweep and literary influences, in similar fashion to its main character, there’s not much going on underneath.