2017 · drama · romance · art house
Ismael's Ghosts
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin1h 54m2017
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
Our read: Ismael's Ghosts (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · romance · art house entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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