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- It is based on his estranged brother and tells the story of a diplomat who is possibly a spy.
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Ismael's Ghosts: Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. With Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel. The story follows a filmmaker (Mathieu Amalric) whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover (Marion Cotillard as Carlotta) just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Apr 5, 2018 · Throughout “Ismael’s Ghosts,” Desplechin weaves in footage from that film-within-a-film, with Louis Garrel playing both the fictional, globe-trotting Ivan Dédalus and his real-life inspiration.
Oct 15, 2017 · The director's cut of Ismael's Ghosts is structured around a mirroring of visitations. Ismael (Mathieu Amalric in a cannonball of a performance) is a film director. His wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) disappeared 20 years ago and has never been heard from again.
Sep 28, 2017 · This “Ivan” isn’t necessarily real, but a character in Ismael’s latest film, based on Ismael’s estranged and enigmatic brother of the same name. Ismael’s Ghosts opens with this film within a film, and as we eavesdrop on hushed conversations between besuited diplomats about a seemingly vanished super agent—and about whose past ...
Mar 23, 2018 · And yet for a while, Ismael’s Ghosts is a borderline straightforward psychological mystery about the complacency-shattering return of Ismaël’s wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard), who disappeared 20 years prior, detonating the lives of her husband and disconsolate father (also a noted filmmaker).
“Ismael’s Ghosts” is about things that are missing, whether it’s a lost love or a creative idea perilously out of one’s reach due to writer’s block. Both of these present problems for director Ismael Vuillard (Mathieu Amalric).
In fact, the only connection is that it’s supposed to be based on Ismael’s brother’s life as a diplomat and his involvement in spy shenanigans.
