A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery)

It is tempting to speculate about how the lives of th others will continue once we are gone. However, this can become kitschy or, maybe even worse, trivial metephysics, like in this cas.
C (Casey Affleck) dies and returns to the home where he lived with M (Mara Rooney). C has a burka-like cloak, as ,known from carton-drawings. At one point he communicates with another ghost in the neighbouir house. Their telepathic conversation is subtitled. Their too many of such visual gimmicks. They don't serve to ease the seriousness of the plot - on the contrary the make the film increasingly more silly. Then a Spanish family moves in and C teaches them what it means to live in a haunted house. More people come and go and at the end their house is demolished.
The soundtrack is very impressive, sometimes the even the cinematography. At its best moments it is like a visual poem, but most of the time this film is just dull.
It is annoying to watch a scen with Mara Rooney stress eating for about 5 minuts while the ghost just stands thre and does nothing. It seems that there were too few ideas to bear a feature film, so those they had were steamrolled like puff-pastry.
3/10