If you opt to see 'A Ghost Story' go in knowing this is not a conventional film, and is what you might call slow. It is a medication on the idea of eternity, it likes to hold it's shots for longer then you're used to and is not in rush, there is a scene of around 6 minutes where Rooney Mara grief eats a pie. Mara eats her pie in the aftermath of the death of her lover Casey Affleck. Affleck has died in a car accident and rather then enter the portal to the next world that conveniently opens for him in the hospital, he opts to stick around, wanders back to his old home and just kind of stays there, literally a ghost in a sheet, but invisible to the mortal world (with a possible exception or two).
Affleck occasional messes with electricity in an involuntary way, but when he gets angry he can do things like nock books off shelves. When Rooney moves out of the house he stays, through multiple subsequent renters, and even after the place is torn down, and an office tower built in it's place. The film takes a turn near the end which I won't go into here. Only an hour and thirty two minute's in length it will probably feel longer. I enjoyed it, I thought it had some interesting ideas but I wasn't greatly moved as I had been bracing myself to be. Currently on Netflix. ***
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