Trailer: Casey Affleck's A GHOST STORY Is a Very Different Kind of Supernatural Film
A Ghost Story was one of the most buzzed about films at The Sundance Film festival this year. It comes from writer-director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) and stars Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
If you're expecting a horror film, that's not what this is at all. This is a very different kind of supernatural movie, and I'm not sure if you'll like it or not. You've gotta really be into weird indie films. Don't get me wrong, the movie does have a certain charm to it that I liked, but it's not for everyone. Casey Affleck literally wears a sheet through the majority of the film as a ghost.
The movie was met with a lot of positive reviews at the festival, and this trailer will give you a good sense of what this movie is about and whether or not it's a movie you'll want to see. The synopsis reads:
Lowery’s meticulously sparse narrative contemplates a spectral figure who was once a man (Casey Affleck). Prematurely taken from this Earth, he makes his way toward his former home, where he is fated to remain forevermore. Shrouded in a white sheet, he observes the lament of his grief-stricken lover (Rooney Mara). Bearing unseen witness to her pain, the wisp stands sentry for years to come, interacting only with time as it hurtles further and further forward, the remnants of his humanity quietly evaporating.
A Ghost Story will hit theaters on July 7, 2017.