Szellem/Világ

Nagyon szép motívum a hűségről, a kitartásról és a szeretett személyhez és az otthonhoz ragaszkodó lelkek magányáról. De az érdekes filozófiai elmélkedés lehetősége végül "fesztiválos hülyeségben" oldódik fel, amelynek értelmét még az alkotója sem fogja megmagyarázni. A film törékeny románcnak indul, és a rejtélyes utalásokon keresztül egzisztenciális lebegésbe csúszik, értelmetlenül túlkombinált sztori és kielégíthetetlen finálé mellett. Hosszú beállítások (többnyire statikusak), 4:3 formátum, minimalista díszletek, minimális szöveg és nagyszerű hangulat. (2017.07.02)

Interstellar in a bedsheet and without the cosmos. (2017.09.26)

Yeah, it’s high art and whatnot, but to be clear, I’m going to give a list of things that I find a lot more entertaining and fulfilling than watching A Ghost Story: a deep cleaning of my living-room and kitchen, a voluntary visit to the dentist, clipping my grandma’s toenails, looking for Atlantis at the bottom of Devil’s Lake, half year studying for my final examination in mathematics, a marathon of Jaromír Soukup shows, running a marathon in freezing temperatures, washing dishes with cold water, going to a restaurant that didn’t get even one star from Zdeňek Pohlreich, going to a party as designated driver, working in a call centre, fishing in a dried-up lake, mushroom hunting in a housing estate, trying to convince prime minister Babiš to stop stealing. (2018.11.15)

Casey Affleck dies at the beginning of the film and spends the rest of the story (except for a few flashbacks) under the sheets acting as a ghost. The first half is brutally boring (long static shots in which little happens predominate, whilst the four-minute sequence in which Rooney Mara eats a cake and sobs speaks for itself) and the second half is terribly confused and strange due to very wild jumps in time. If in any way I understood it correctly, then it was only because another character in the film explained it to me in advance. But really, who knows? There are about half a dozen brilliant ideas in the whole film, but each of them is used only marginally and then swept off the table. It's a pity. The film definitely has a strong atmosphere and it works as a bizarre festival film, but from a film perspective, A Ghost Story desperately falls apart and you would be looking in vain for meaning in it. (2017.07.02)

I had no idea what I was in for when I started watching the film. I was all the more curious. Well, it didn't last long. Once again, it turned out that I’m not enough of an intellectual to appreciate the hidden qualities of this film. The beginning was unbelievably slow. The filmmakers embellished it with absolutely breathtaking static shots without even a trace of movement, and I started to have a bad feeling about it. After such an opening, the film continued at the same frantic pace, and the FFW button became my faithful companion, thanks to which I managed to bring the running time down to a tolerable sixty minutes. A very boring sixty minutes at that. (2018.06.30)

"Přízrak" is definitely not a movie that will appeal to everyone. Its pace is truly so slow that at times you will just stare, wondering if the picture has frozen. The scene with the cake is the best example of this. But despite being almost wordless, the film manages to convey something to you and leave an impression on you. (2017.09.25)

I was just waiting for the dude to build, like, a barn or a chemical plant and finally get some serious voyeurism going. An extraordinarily bad film (not in the sense of having a bad effect on the viewer, because it doesn't have any effect) that is neither arthouse, nor alternative, nor original, nor festival, nor bizarre. It's just bad and boring. The only moment I identified with a character was the Rooney Mara eating seance she puked after. That amount of pie and depression would probably get anyone. [10%] (2022.08.21)