A writer writes a novel, a songwriter writes a song, we do what we can to endure.

A Ghost Story (2017)

Chosen by me as I like to go to the cinema a lot.

A haunting melancholy film that turns from being about grief into something more extraordinary and metaphysical before turning again and becoming very human and grounded.

It may be too dry to bring on the tears but it's hard to imagine a sadder film this year (though it has some very funny jokes - these too are bone dry).

Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck* are terrific with very little dialogue and the sheeted ghost manages to be expressive perhaps because of it's blankness (we project/empathise onto the sheet in the same way light projects onto a screen).

Indeed, one reading of the film makes us into one of the ghosts, observing, without being able to interact fully. This is why we see Mara eating that pie for so, so long from a single angle, different to the ghosts point of view who we can see in the background. 

A truly unique film. 

*yeah he's a prick in real life. Hard to ignore that.