The wife comes home with a man whom she kisses in the doorway, and the ghost makes the lights flicker and knocks books from a shelf. In the house next door he sees a ghost covered by a flower-print sheet who communicates that it is waiting for someone, though it does not remember who. Unable to communicate, the ghost watches while the wife grieves and then begins to proceed with her life. When the wife gets home she sits on the floor and eats the pie until she vomits.

The ghost walks home and sees Linda, his landlord, drop off a pie. A door of light opens before him but he makes no attempt to approach it and it closes. He is invisible to the living, as he is now a ghost. The husband awakens and, still covered by the sheet, wanders through the hospital. At the hospital his wife views his body, covering it with a sheet before departing. Shortly afterwards the husband is killed in a car accident a short distance from the house. Occasionally they hear strange noises and one night there is a loud bang, the source of which they are unable to define. The couple are in disagreement about moving away.

It received positive reviews from critics.Ī woman mentions to her musician husband that she moved a lot as a child and took to hiding little notes wherever she lived. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, and was released by A24 in the United States on July 7, 2017. It is about a man who becomes a ghost and remains in the house he shared with his wife. A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery and starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, with Will Oldham, Liz Cardenas Franke, Sonia Acevedo, and Rob Zabrecky in supporting roles.

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