One of the hottest tickets out of this past January’s Sundance Film Festival was A Ghost Story (read our review), written and directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Peter Pan).
A24, the company behind The Witch, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Green Room and Ex Machina will distribute the film today with Picturehouse partnering on the UK release Aug. 11.
Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (ParaNorman, The Killer Inside Me) and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, A Nightmare on Elm Street) star in this story of a ghost and the house he haunts. These two brand new images take the cliched “sheet ghost” and turn it into something beautiful.
“Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost (Casey Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Rooney Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence.”
