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"GREAT MOVIE! Review coming soon... *Official 2020: A Movie Odyssey entry, by Dr-Faustus* "
" Director: David Lowery Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo Other Images "
“My analysis on the movie A Ghost Story, 2017:
Edward Gomez
I apologize in advance; English is not my first language.
I was amazed by the slow but very thoughtful pace of how the events develop, an eerie photography and a haunting music add to the sadness and frustration experienced by the main characters, M & C, in a nutshell ; a rumination of sadness and love eternally thru space and time. Excellent movie, one of the best in 2017 !
I say ‘eternally’ because this is one of those movies where the story starts as a linear plot, you think you are going from point A to B, then ¾s ahead of the movie you realize that the story cycles back in re-inserts itself into an eternal loop, a circle with no start and no end, a Möbius Strip
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"The fact that I had been up 35+ hours and still this film managed to keep me interested (and awake) with minimal dialogue and Casey Affleck under a sheet staring at things and people is really impressing. "
" DVD- 1hr. 32min. First Viewing While there are several scenes that just meander, including an audacious one that respectable but a bit dull, A Ghost Story is such an original, powerful piece of work that that meandering often aids in its beauty. It can be weirdly funny one moment, melancholic the next, meandering, then just outright beautiful. There really aren't characters in the film (there are, but their more ciphers for the audience), so Lowery and his ambitions are the stars of the film, t"
"First viewing - Jan. 29th I can't believe I actually wasted an hour and a half watching this instead of something else. Aside from Will Oldham's speech (which kind of argues against this movie's existence) and a few mildly amusing scenes scattered elsewhere, there wasn't much to it and I'm frankly baffled as to why I've seen so much praise for it. I'll grant that the film looks good, but the first half is spent stretching each scene beyond what's necessary and could have been edited down much f"