A recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
26 December 1980, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
9 September 1980, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
28 August 1985, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
2 June 1968, Burbank, California, USA
September 11, 2017
In A Ghost Story, Lowery pulls off the neatest trick of all with this haunting image. He teases us with the idea that humanity survives into the afterlife.July 28, 2017
"A Ghost Story" is an oddly haunting, wholly original trip.July 27, 2017
You may not understand "A Ghost Story." But you won't forget it.August 17, 2017
A meditation on loss but also on legacy - on our enduring need to endure.July 21, 2017
A Ghost Story is the most unusual and loneliest phantasm saga ever to give you the shivers.September 05, 2017
[Director] David Lowery's inventive film is a deeply affecting and unforgettable exploration of life, of love, and of grief, driven by a quite brilliant performance by Casey Affleck.September 04, 2017
This is a film not so much about spooks as about deadly loss and the disorientation it brings.September 05, 2017
I'm going to simply say that I loved this movie, even if I don't quite know what it was about.September 11, 2017
If a movie refuses to make linear sense, we expect to be affected on some deeper level that makes it all worthwhile. But [David] Lowery's narrative obscurity fails to make you feel anything.August 28, 2017
A Ghost Story morphs into a cosmic tragedy, a requiem not for one lost soul, but for every one of us fragile beings.July 28, 2017
An adventure in mundanity that makes excellent use of the tension between those two words.July 20, 2017
A hypnotic, melancholic low-budget meditation on love, heartbreak and memory.