Review of A Ghost Story (2017) by Joseph P — 05 Oct 2017

At first, this movie leaves you desperately looking for the fast forward button on your remote. The first few scenes are agonizingly slow; almost real time interactions between a couple in a touching relationship. Long silences unlike any before seen in a production movie dominate the first half of the film.

It is not until later in the film that we begin to feel truly haunted by those silences and the depth of death's loneliness they simulate in us as viewers. Watching this movie makes you feel truly haunted. By the time your halfway through watching, you cannot take your eyes away as an eerily truthful awareness of the experience of death descends on the viewer. We begin to empathize with the ghost in an absurd sheet covered comic figure until we no longer feel the comedic aspect at all but are transcended into an afterlife like hypnosis totally wrapped up in passing years and seconds of this truly innovative film.