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Ghost Town Anthology

Répertoire des villes disparues

2019

Denis Côté

Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée ...

5.5

246

Fantasy. Mystery. Drama In a small, isolated town in Quebec with a population of 215, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dubé family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. Something descends slowly upon the area. In this period of mourning and in this fog, strangers ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Too subdued for genre fans and too psychologically thin for those with artier inclinations, the low-key mood piece nonetheless has enough ambiguity to keep you watching."	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"[An] intimate, more unsettling work that approaches narrative elliptically: Mysteries remain mysteries, and the value isn’t in finding answers but in emotionally exploring where the questions take you. "	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] is impressively suspended between social-realism and the supernatural (...) [Its] most effective trick is how it tempers the response to the walking dead"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Juxtaposes the mundane and the parochial with the supernatural, to sometimes disquieting effect (...) It uses other-worldly and metaphysical imagery to explore more familiar and prosaic themes."	POS

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