2016 · fantasy · comedy · family
The Canterville Ghost
Directed by Yann Samuell1h 35m2016
In the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
Our read: The Canterville Ghost (2016) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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