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Ismael's Ghosts (French: Les Fantômes d'Ismaël) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin.

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Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, My Golden Days) is one of my favorite living directors, but this is a rare misfire for him. The film simply (or not so simply) escapes his control and becomes an unwieldy beast. There is a seed of an interesting melodrama involving three titans of modern French acting: Mathieu Amalric is an unstable Parisian film director haunted by the unsolved vanishing of his wife two decades ago, and his promising romance with a new girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is upended when his wife reappears (in the form of Marion Cotillard). But Desplechin's tendency toward nesting-doll structural complexity and fanciful tangents serves him poorly this time around: a film-within-a-film is bizarrely incorporated and, as far as I can tell, utterly pointless, and the film's interminable second and third acts busily squander any interest or tension generated by the first.

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Any movie with Marion Cotillard is usually worth watching, but this one just didn't really work on many levels.


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