{"id":25717,"date":"2017-07-16T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25717"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:36","slug":"a-ghost-story-2017-fantasia-international-film-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/16\/a-ghost-story-2017-fantasia-international-film-festival-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ghost Story (2017) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After his death, a man goes home dressed in a white sheet to try to reconnect with his grieving wife.<\/p>\n

A Ghost Story an intimate haunting film by David Lowery that explores themes of grieving, remembering, being remembered, learning to let go, and ultimately love.\u00a0 Here Lowery creates an intimate look on a couple in a short time before killing the husband, leaving his wife in shock and trying to figure life out for herself.\u00a0 He also explores this death from the deceased side of things without ever going in the cheesy or creepy worlds many ghost story films go to in order to do this.\u00a0 Here he creates 2 strong leads that have very few lines, yet manage to pass emotions and feelings through watching these two people interact before the husband\u2019s death and how they are after it.<\/p>\n

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Playing this couple beautifully with a sadness that is palpable are Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck.\u00a0 Issue with Affleck aside, he gives a strong performance here as the husband\/ghost.\u00a0 The one that should be concentrated on here is Mara.\u00a0 She is not the lead but steals every scene she is in.\u00a0 Her demonstration of grief and the pain of losing one\u2019s significant other is raw and stunning in its sadness.\u00a0 She shows incredible talent while using very few words.\u00a0 The way she passes her emotions through small variations of her character and through nuances in how she\u2019s breathing, the look in her eyes, the way she cries when left alone, it all rings very true and absolutely real.\u00a0 She gives here the kind of performances rarely seen in ghost films and it makes the entire film worth watching just to see her fall apart and pick herself back up.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those touching performances that haunts for a long time after the film ends.<\/p>\n

The film here relies a lot on performances, but also on music and visual style.\u00a0 The music here is by Daniel Hart who creates sounds and song that go hand in hand with the film, creating an extra layer of emotion, matching the sadness emanating from the leads.\u00a0 His music is almost like an extra character in this minimalist film and it adds a lot to the scenes where it is present.\u00a0 Going with the music and acting is the visual style.\u00a0 At first, it looks like a hipster-y, Instagram-framed and filtered film, but as it advances, it all makes sense.\u00a0 The framing and subdued colors help create the grief feeling, enhances the emotions by being almost a background element to them.\u00a0 The look is simple throughout and matches the story and its tone beautifully.<\/p>\n

A Ghost Story is one of those character studies that is concentrated on the emotions and how the leads feel to make the audience feel with them.\u00a0 It\u2019s has a few scenes that feel out of place, but as a whole, it\u2019s one of those films that succeeds in making the viewer feel with the characters.\u00a0 Rooney Mara is absolutely amazing in her performance of grief and learning to live without a loved one.\u00a0 She embodies sadness and determination in how she just keeps going after the hardest event of her life.\u00a0 She\u2019s the true shining star here and makes the whole film worth watching just to see her.<\/p>\n

The Fantasia International Film Fetival runs from July 13th to August 2nd.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After his death, a man goes home dressed in a white sheet to try to reconnect with his grieving wife. A Ghost Story an intimate haunting film by David Lowery that explores themes of grieving, remembering, being remembered, learning to let go, and ultimately love.\u00a0 Here Lowery creates an intimate look on a couple in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[111,302,349,409,1008],"class_list":["post-25717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-arthouse","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-ghosts","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25719,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25717\/revisions\/25719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}