A Ghost Story

Motif de loyauté, de persévérance et de solitude des esprits fixés sur la personne aimée et le lieu de résidence très beau. Mais le potentiel d'une méditation philosophique intéressante se dissipera finalement dans "l'absurdité festivalière", dont le créateur ne vous expliquera pas la signification. Le film commence comme une romance fragile et glisse ensuite vers une lévitation existentielle avec des événements mélangés de manière absurde et une conclusion insatisfaisante. De longs plans (principalement statiques), un format 4: 3 avec un décor minimaliste, peu de mots et une multitude d'excellente atmosphère. (02/07/2017)

Interstellar in a bedsheet and without the cosmos. (26/09/2017)

Yeah, it’s high art and whatnot, but to be clear, I’m going to give a list of things that I find a lot more entertaining and fulfilling than watching A Ghost Story: a deep cleaning of my living-room and kitchen, a voluntary visit to the dentist, clipping my grandma’s toenails, looking for Atlantis at the bottom of Devil’s Lake, half year studying for my final examination in mathematics, a marathon of Jaromír Soukup shows, running a marathon in freezing temperatures, washing dishes with cold water, going to a restaurant that didn’t get even one star from Zdeňek Pohlreich, going to a party as designated driver, working in a call centre, fishing in a dried-up lake, mushroom hunting in a housing estate, trying to convince prime minister Babiš to stop stealing. (15/11/2018)

Casey Affleck meurt au début du film et passe le reste de l'histoire (à l'exception de quelques flashbacks) jouant le fantôme sous une couverture. La première moitié est extrêmement ennuyeuse (dominée par de longs plans statiques avec peu d'action, une séquence de quatre minutes où Rooney Mara mange une tarte et sanglote), tandis que la deuxième moitié est confuse et étrange car elle saute sauvagement dans le temps. Si je l'ai bien comprise, c'est seulement grâce à un autre personnage du film qui l'explique à l'avance, sachant ce qui est vrai. Il y a une douzaine d'idées géniales dans le film, mais elles ne sont utilisées que marginalement avant d'être abandonnées. C'est dommage car le film a une atmosphère forte et fonctionne comme une bizarrerie de festival, mais sur le plan cinématographique, A Ghost Story s'effondre désespérément et on y chercherait en vain un sens. (02/07/2017)

I had no idea what I was in for when I started watching the film. I was all the more curious. Well, it didn't last long. Once again, it turned out that I’m not enough of an intellectual to appreciate the hidden qualities of this film. The beginning was unbelievably slow. The filmmakers embellished it with absolutely breathtaking static shots without even a trace of movement, and I started to have a bad feeling about it. After such an opening, the film continued at the same frantic pace, and the FFW button became my faithful companion, thanks to which I managed to bring the running time down to a tolerable sixty minutes. A very boring sixty minutes at that. (30/06/2018)

"Přízrak" is definitely not a movie that will appeal to everyone. Its pace is truly so slow that at times you will just stare, wondering if the picture has frozen. The scene with the cake is the best example of this. But despite being almost wordless, the film manages to convey something to you and leave an impression on you. (25/09/2017)

I was just waiting for the dude to build, like, a barn or a chemical plant and finally get some serious voyeurism going. An extraordinarily bad film (not in the sense of having a bad effect on the viewer, because it doesn't have any effect) that is neither arthouse, nor alternative, nor original, nor festival, nor bizarre. It's just bad and boring. The only moment I identified with a character was the Rooney Mara eating seance she puked after. That amount of pie and depression would probably get anyone. [10%] (21/08/2022)