Review: 'A Ghost Story' is fascinating look at grief

[The Patriot]

Review: 'A Ghost Story' is fascinating look at grief

07-03-2017 11:40 AM

Consider the white sheet. Such a simple, ubiquitous item can have so many loaded meanings. A bed, a costume, a shroud. The multifaceted uses of the sheet are explored in David Lowery's "A Ghost Story," a meditation on grief, loss and the essence of life from both sides of the veil. At times, this film is profoundly heartbreaking, in other moments, willfully obtuse, but always, there is the sheet, and what it symbolizes.


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