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    Grief Hangs Around At Home In 'A Ghost Story'

    A new film starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara is provocative — if you've got the patience.
    by Bob Mondello Jul 07, 2017 2 minutes
    <em>A Ghost Story</em> unfolds in long, static shots, most of them without faces to hang onto.
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    Just a few days after director David Lowery finished shooting Disney's live-action Pete's Dragon, he started a project that could hardly have been more different — the micro-budget, quietly revelatory, poetic, meditative, and aptly titled A Ghost Story.

    Lowery shot in secret and very quickly. His setting, an entirely unremarkable suburban rambler that was slated

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