A Ghost Story (2017)

Wonderful character development!

What makes it different from others?

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

I can see an incredible amount of people calling this film slow and pretentious. And while I'd definitely agree with the former, I found the film far to simple and mesmerising to be considered pretentious.The movies first 30 minutes or so is definitely slow with extremely long takes with nothing noticeably important happening. And while watching each of these long takes you will definitely find yourself, as I did, wondering what the point of it is. But the film won me over one shot at a time, for example the scene starts, it's slow moving and honestly boring to Begin with, but by the end of it you see the purpose in the way it makes you feel and that's really what the movies about.Anytime I found myself becoming bored I grew to trust the film to win me back and show me that there was a purpose to what I just watched, and without fail the film always kept me interested in where it was going and I new it would find an interesting way to take me there.I often find that I can be a bit nihilistic in life in general and I definitely see (at least in my interpretation anyway) there's a theme of nihilism throughout the movie which honestly is probably why I enjoyed it so much and why I found it so entertaining. After the first 30 to 40 minutes the film does know that if it wants to keep your attention it's going to have to do something different, and it does. The shots gradually get shorter, there is eventually changes in setting and people start to come and go and things that are set up earlier get to show there purpose and give context to earlier scenes that at first may of seemed pretentious.This is a really hard movie to know who to recommend to so all I can say is give it a shot. Sit down, turn off your phone and the lights, and form your own opinion on it.

Steer as clear from this waste of time film. The size of the film is that of a postage stamp. And has MADE MY BLOOD BOIL as we spend a grand on huge TVs for the director to offer us this, what a dick! NO DIALOGUE. VERY SLOW. INFURIATING INFURIATING INFURIATING size of the screen lost the 1st 50 % of my business then the sheet with the 2 eyes cut out did the other 50 % of my business. Switching off now. Thank god it was free.

I watched this film on Netflix up to the morgue scene which wasn't very long I admit. The scene where they are cuddling in bed I thought I'd accidentally pressed the pause button by accident so I pressed play to unpause it but had actually then paused it and it made no difference! Scenes lingered way too long it was like photographs on the screen, which is probably the effect the director wanted. Like the most boring photographs you ever did see, the kind to spend 2 seconds looking at and move on, but you are forced to look at them for minutes at a time, I pity those who paid to see it in cinemas.

Stately tone poem that will live with me for a long time. Comforting and disturbing at the same time. Truly a one off. Not for everyone that's for sure, but if you have a heart you've a good chance of finding something worth experiencing here.