A GHOST STORY
STARRING: Rooney Mara
For most of this eccentric but surprisingly affecting movie, Casey Affleck walks around in a sheet with holes cut out for the eyes. Now dead, he’s a mute ghost—a spectral wallflower—unwilling to say farewell to his widow (Mara) or, perhaps, unable to locate the red exit sign to the afterlife. A Ghost Story is about how memory is washed away: the departed, much like Affleck’s sheet, are hung out to dry. ( Out now)