A Ghost Story
2017
****
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Liz Cardenas Franke, Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky
A recently deceased man, now a ghost draped in a white sheet, lingers in the home he once shared with his grieving partner in David Lowery's drama, which explores loss, grief, and the passage of time. The short but static film includes only a few lines of dialogue. Even if some of the individual scenes, like the infamous six-minute pie-eating shot, tested my patience, this dreamy and deliberately paced film has a very strong atmosphere.
