The Past Returns, Inscrutably, In 'Ismael's Ghosts'
French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin can't hold the thread of the story he seeks to tell, so this film about the mysterious return of an old lover fades into frustrating ambiguity.
Keep an open mind going into a film by Arnaud Desplechin, and if you can stand the abundance of enigma and apparent disorder you're likely to come out with an opened mind and a filled heart.
The French writer-director's every movie is, and is , a heroically doomed quest to make sense of the tragicomedy we call life — his own life, specifically. Here, he's once again
