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  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film. As Ismael's trials and tribulations unfurl, so too do those of his film's prot...

Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin

Written By: Julie Peyr, Léa Mysius, Arnaud Desplechin

  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 54 m

Ismael's Ghosts

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
65
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Summary Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film. As Ismael's trials and tribulations unfurl, so too do those of his film's prot...

Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin

Written By: Julie Peyr, Léa Mysius, Arnaud Desplechin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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35% Mixed
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100
Mar 22, 2018
As is customary in Mr. Desplechin’s work, there’s a lot of dialogue in Ismael’s Ghosts, but this movie’s nerve endings vibrate most avidly and tenderly in scenes where not a word is spoken.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 5, 2018
The movie before us may be far from perfect, but with some crucial narrative and thematic tissue restored, it plays much more clearly, and satisfyingly, as an evocation of Ismael's emotional and psychological rupture, in his life as well as his art.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 18, 2018
A particularly strong element is the story of Carlotta’s father, played with arresting intensity by Laszlo Szabo.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 22, 2018
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. But outside of the espionage-movie and poor-lonely-director-dude-can’t-stop-getting-laid interludes, many of those scenarios unsettle, provoke (intentional) laughter, or prove engrossing, especially in their doublings and mysteries.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 4, 2018
This director's cut might smack of self-indulgence, but it also says much about love and loss and the language of an artform that flirts with realism while remaining an illusion.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW
57
May 27, 2017
Did Desplechin get seduced by the problems that plague filmmakers like himself? If so, he’s done a disservice to his own work, which needed a solution to its deficiencies—not an extended reverie that merely highlights them. [Cannes Version]
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
40
May 27, 2017
It isn't that it's hard going: it simply can't decide what it wants to be. [Cannes Version]
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma, Le Pacte, Wild Bunch, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Pictanovo, Région Hauts-de-France, Cinémage 11, Soficinéma 13, Cinéventure 2, Cofinova 13, Indéfilms 5, Palatine Étoile 14
Release Date Mar 23, 2018
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
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Website https://le-pacte.com/france/film/les-fantomes-dismael
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Awards

Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Prix Louis Delluc
• 1 Nomination

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