‘A GHOST STORY’ CASTS A BIZARRE SPELL
A fatal, off-screen car crash interrupts the picturesque, suburban lives of a young married couple in David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story,” marooning the deceased husband musician (Casey Affleck) in a kind of purgatory as a watchful, mostly benign ghost.
The movie is, inevitably, “the one where Casey Affleck spends most of the movie with a bedsheet over his head.”With two holes for eyes, he resembles a last-minute Halloween costume. Such a simple, sheeted specter - as Hollywood ghosts go
