Review of A Ghost Story (2017) by Ginak — 02 Aug 2017

If you are a die-hard fan of Casey Affleck or Rooney Mara or David Lowery, you should see this film. For everyone else, it is optional. It is much more of an “art film” than a traditional ghost story, and some scenes went on much too long (I kept thinking Terrence Malick – sometimes interesting, but not always).

I don’t want to put in any spoilers, but a few things simply didn’t make sense or were downright annoying (like the pie gluttony or the hateful guy at the party who “knows it all”) – and the beginning of the film was so quiet that it may have been meant to shame anyone eating popcorn or pretzels like me.

You could hear a lot of people moving around in their squeaky seats – so the director miscalculated his “silence effect” (or is unaware of the current state of cinema seats). I didn’t love it and didn’t hate it, but was not particularly intrigued by it either.