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Ismael's Ghosts
Directed by
Arnaud Desplechin
R
2017
1h 54m
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The story follows a filmmaker (Mathieu Amalric) whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover (Marion Cotillard as Carlotta) just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
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Cast of Ismael's Ghosts
Mathieu Amalric
Ismaël Vuillard
Marion Cotillard
Carlotta Bloom
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Sylvia
Louis Garrel
Ivan Dedalus
Alba Rohrwacher
Arielle / Faunia
László Szabó
Henri Bloom
Hippolyte Girardot
Zwy
Jacques Nolot
Claverie
Catherine Mouchet
Le médecin soins intensifs
Samir Guesmi
Le médecin
Mélodie Richard
Hôtesse de l'air
Marc Prin
Jacques (Diplomate 1)
Bruno Todeschini
Responsable sécurité Tadjikistan
Pascal Ternisien
Robert (Diplomate 2)
Philippe Fretun
Mathieu (Diplomate 3)
Bernard Bloch
Amiel (Diplomate 4)
Guillaume Briat
Luc (Diplomate 5)
Marc Berman
Jean (Diplomate 6)
Eric Franquelin
Caron, l'agent DGSE de Paris
Philippe Soutan
Le prêtre
Zohar Wexler
David K (Tel Aviv)
Yaël Fogiel
La spectatrice de Tel Aviv
Cyril Bothorel
L'homme de la préfecture
Abderrahmane El Kebir
Le vieil homme préfecture
Béatrice Michel
Femme préfecture
Yann Coridian
JF, l'assistant d'Ismaël
Ahmed Benaissa
Farias
Isabelle Sadoyan
Le fantôme de Rose
Rémy Roubakha
Bertuccio, l'agent DGSE
Gennadiy Fomin
Igor le Russe
Jana Epikaridis
La femme d'Igor
Alnesa Horvatova
La vieille Rom
Nerouam Talbi
Le voisin de Roubaix
Leila Amara
La voisine de Roubaix
Flora Djien
L'infirmière soins intensifs
Petr Surmaj
Joueur de musique Prague
Marion Bottollier
La sirène
Jacques Lassalle
Ismael's Ghosts Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Arnaud Desplechin loves stories - the ones you show on a screen, that people regale others with that reveal delusions and dreams, that we tell ourselves in order to survive.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
It's all very artfully done, with plenty of inventive camera work by Irina Lubtchansky. But I found it unsatisfying, even as a slice of life; it seemed more of a julienne.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There are moments in this movie that are richer than anything you can possibly see in a movie theater this month, scenes that will fill you with awe.
Washington Post
Christopher Kompanek
As Ismael, Almaric grounds the unwieldy film...delivering an incisive performance that imbues his subtlest gestures with searing turmoil.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
The film feels very personal, as if writer/director Arnaud Desplechin were sorting out his thoughts, processes and demons onscreen.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
Ismael's Ghosts drops a number of seemingly disparate ingredients into a stew that ends up coalescing into a satisfying treat, full of surprises and flavors you wouldn't expect.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Unfortunately all the metafictional layering only highlights the lack of engagement at the center of the story, the three stars acting up a storm but barely acknowledging each other.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
It's true that, even on a more complete viewing, not everything in "Ismael's Ghosts" coheres. If it did, I suspect the movie would not feel quite so alive.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Desplechin mines his earlier films and his cultural obsessions for a formidable trove of narrative complications, which he flings into the script with admirable abandon but without directorial audacity to match.
TheWrap
Dave White
Desplechin is here to remind us that all readings are subjective, that stories end differently depending on who's doing the telling and who's doing the listening.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Multiple meanings are Desplechin's bread and butter and the fertile terrain of his mostly wonderful films. Like Ismael, though, he seems to have lost the thread that will tie together his stories and generate something for us to chew over.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
An unforgettable experience.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
There's no way around it: The whole, here, is a mess. Even with the extra minutes, the film seems unfinished, the connections among its disparate scenarios vague and arbitrary.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
Flush with stylistic elegance and brio.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
Like the director at the center of his story, Desplechin allows self-indulgence to get in the way.
Film Comment Magazine
Yonca Talu
Arnaud Desplechin's frenetic follow-up to the ethereal and sensitive coming-of-age romance My Golden Days (2015) represents as much a deliberate revival of the idiosyncratic French auteur's cinematic obsessions as a liberating move away from them.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
A freewheeling gambit, hurtling in multiple directions at once, and it's thrilling to watch Desplechin try juggle them all.
Slant Magazine
Sam C. Mac
Arnaud Desplechin's latest simultaneously collapses and expands his entire body of work, reflexively revealing its many layers, like a pop-up book.
TheWrap
Ben Croll
Mixing story elements from other touchstone films and funneling them through his unique style, Desplechin has delivered a familiar if agreeable valentine to the medium itself.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
To say that Desplechin loses the thread would only be partially accurate. It's more like he lights the thread on fire like a fuse.
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