Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, 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.
Cinematography
Academy ratio 1.33:1 frames grief like a faded memory.
Direction
Lowery made this secretly between Pete's Dragon takes.
Score
Daniel Hart's strings will wreck you in the pie scene.
Director
David Lowery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lowery shot this in secret for $100k using the same house from his previous film, with Affleck and Mara recently divorced in real life.
The ghost's sheet has two dark eyeholes because Lowery rejected CGI de-aging; the subtle changes in drape and posture are Affleck's actual physical performance.
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