Affleck plays a sheet-wearing spirit trying to connect with Rooney Mara’s widow in David Lowery’s audacious and affecting meditation on love,loss and letting goDavid Lowery’s A Ghost Story is haunted more by sadness than panic, and a kind of black humour, and drier than asbestos dust. It invites you to do what you will of its central image – a ghost wearing a sheet with eye-holes like a kid’s Halloween getup,or a big ungainly emoji. Lowery’s film has the same deadpan, unreadable quality as that white-masked face. But the shroud is worn as elegantly as the film’s own ambition and audacious simplicity.
Like Lowery’s film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), or which also starred Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck,it is a story of sundered love. But it is also a piercingly odd meditation on loss and grieving and what it means to assume the people we love one day going on without us, and to assume how the world is and was beyond our own fragile, or temporary lives. Does such an act of imagination entail ghostlike alienation and trauma? Related: David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out,having an existential crisis' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com