DIRECTOR: David Lowery
PRODUCERS: Toby Halbrooks, James M Johnston, Adam Donaghey
PRODUCTION CO: Sailor Bear, Zero Trans Fat Productions, Ideaman Studios, Scared Sheetless
SCREENPLAY: David Lowery
​PHOTOGRAPHY: Andrew Droz Palermo
EDITOR: David Lowery
MUSIC: Daniel Hart
WITH: Casey Affleck (C), Rooney Mara (M), Kenneisha Thompson (Doctor), Liz Cardenas Franke (Linda), Barlow Jacobs (Gentleman Caller), Sonia Acevedo (Maria) 
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​FESTIVALS: Sundance

REVIEWS

“One of the wonders of this or any year, David Lowery’s film takes the homeliest of images for the supernatural — a sheet with two forlorn eyeholes — and places it at the centre of a layered and piercing contemplation of existential mystery. Working in secret and on a micro-budget, the director of Pete’s Dragon and Ain't Them Bodies Saints has evoked a profound eeriness from the most minimal and intimate of means.

As the ghost of a young husband (Casey Affleck) observes the grief of his partner (Rooney Mara) and then lingers through subsequent tenancies of the house they shared, the helpless ghost’s attachment to the place he loved becomes increasingly impersonal and unsettled. Lowery’s theme is realised in delicate, folkloric images of a distinctly American paradise lost, its hushed mood disrupted by abrupt bursts of activity — Will Oldham on a brilliant jag as a drunken doom theorist — and radical bends in time.”

– Bill Gosden, New Zealand International Film Festival 2017

“A Ghost Story has the structure and rhythm of a musical suite, with Lowery working variations on the same themes, the same characters, and the same location. The result can be lyrical and poetic, or more naturalistic and minimalist. In both cases, A Ghost Story is absolutely mesmerizing, with an anything-goes quality that’s endlessly fascinating. Any movie that can turn a walking joke like The Ghost into a figure of genuine pathos is a movie that earns every long pause, and every sudden leap.”

— Noel Murray, The Playlist

“A Ghost Story is filmmaking that challenges and exhilarates, a potent reminder of how many new places film can still be taken even after a century of people working in the medium.”

— Dominik Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence of Sound

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

​​Palmerston North   
Wednesday, 12 March, 6.00pm

Canterbury  
Monday, 31 March, 7.00pm

Timaru  
Tuesday, 13 May, 6.30pm

Dunedin
​Wednesday, 28 May, 7.30pm

Queenstown
​Tuesday, 10 June, 8.00pm

​Whanganui
Monday, 22 September, 7.00pm

Wellington   
Monday, 06 October, 6.15pm

​Wellington   
Monday, 06 October, 8.30pm

Hamilton  
Monday, 20 October, 6.30pm

Auckland   
Tuesday, 28 October, 6.15pm

​Bigger Picture Ōamaru 
Thursday, 13 November, 7.00pm
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