'A Ghost Story' Review: Beautifully heartbraking!


🌟A Ghost Story🌟9/10🌟

Directed and written by David Lowery

Starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck

Last night I watched one of the most beautiful, haunting films I have ever seen and it has truly touched my heart!

This magnificent and unique movie casts a fine, delicate spell; many may resist it, but those who go along with it may find themselves profoundly moved, transported to a soul-stirring, poetically beautiful place. In A Ghost Story, writer/director David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) has created a deceptively small movie, confined in a very tight space (it uses the squarish, 1-to-1.33 screen aspect ratio), with very little dialogue and pretty simple, spare effects. (The ghost is very deliberately nothing more than just a guy in a sheet.)

But this simplicity is used to reveal true, brutal emotional reactions. Long, slow, still shots allow viewers to reflect upon grief, death, life, love, loneliness and other things, while more startling transitions -- such as breathtaking leaps through time -- arouse larger, more existential questions. The haunting sound design and music are always note-perfect, and rarely, if ever, break the mood. A Ghost Story is everything from a heartbreakingly simple love story to a beautiful poetic piece of art.

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