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      • In spite of its admirable storytelling ambition and the obvious craftsmanship at play, Ismael's Ghosts does feel schizophrenically busy at times and proves ultimately unsatisfying as it fails to drive home the many questions it successfully raises.
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  2. March 23, 2018. 5 min read. I’ve seen “Ismael’s Ghosts” twice, and both times I got the feeling that I was missing something. The film feels very personal, as if writer/director Arnaud Desplechin were sorting out his thoughts, processes and demons onscreen.

  3. Mar 19, 2018 · Employing his usual offbeat dissection of estranged (and just strange) family members as they float in and out of one another’s lives through his usual on-screen alter ego Mathieu Amalric, this time around Desplechin perplexes with tangential subplots and schizophrenically administered characterizations in this collapsible love triangle ...

  4. Apr 5, 2018 · “Ismael’s Ghosts,” like much of Desplechin’s work, feels intensely personal but not exactly autobiographical (at least, I hope it isn’t, since at one point Ismael shoots his producer in the...

  5. Apr 6, 2018 · “Ismael’s Ghosts,” like much of Desplechin’s work, feels intensely personal but not exactly autobiographical (at least, I hope it isn’t, since at one point Ismael shoots his producer in the arm).

  6. Mar 22, 2018 · Hallucinations take over Ismael’s waking life; characters leave and then return; an adopted son mentioned by Ismael never materializes; religious metaphors bounce around and then settle in ...

  7. How does it feel to return to the men who missed you for so many years? What's on a ghost's agenda? It could be the resurrection of the long-gone, setting things right or jumping straight back into the old traps.

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