Film

Director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, BAMcinemaFest 2013) reteams with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in this hypnotic drift through time and eternity. After his sudden death in a car accident, a man (Affleck) returns as a ghost—enrobed in a classic white bed sheet—to the Texas home he shared with his wife (Mara). It’s the beginning of a vigil that stretches through centuries past and present as he bears silent witness to the home’s changing inhabitants and transformations wrought by time. Rendered in spectral, gorgeously gauzy imagery, A Ghost Story grows into a profound and, yes, haunting rumination on mortality, impermanence, and life after death.

An A24 release.