The film is a ghost story, in the sense that there’s a ghost in it, but it’s also many other things: a love story, a science fiction-inflected story about time travel and time loops, and a story about loneliness and denial, and the ephemeral nature of the flesh, and the anxiousness that comes from contemplating the end of consciousness .
This is a film that's more inclined to ask questions than answer them, much less give life advice.The film’s presentation of ghosthood as a purgatorial in-between state, inhabited by individuals who refuse to let go of the life they can no longer have.
Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo shoots the movie in the old-fashioned, square-ish “Academy” ratio, letting us see the rounded edges of the frame; this has a constricting effect, so that we seem to be spying through a keyhole at someone else’s life.
The Film surprisingly had an amazing soundtrack not only the background stuff but also the main song that summarised the entire film was excellent. The film is really slow like there are freeze frames extending over a minute long, this is done by the director to make you think about life and your purpose in this world.
Overall you will either love Ghost Story or outright hate it, this decision can be made when there is a four minute scene of Rooney Mara eating pie in real time,If you bail out you hated but if you continued you accepted the movie for what it is and will eventually love it
I give A Ghost Story a 3.8/5⭐