Ghosts
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / german, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital by her husband, Pierre. After spotting Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but no one believes her.
Our read · Ghosts (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · german entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Ghosts
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