ISM

  • U/A (INDIA)
  • 2016


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Positive Reviews 27
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Average Rating 2.7/5
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3.8
The film feels very personal, as if writer/director Arnaud Desplechin were sorting out his thoughts, processes and demons onscreen. Rogerebert
3.5
Advertisement Kevin Jerome Eversons lovely Tonsler Park (a great hangover movie if ever there was one) gave me a much needed dose of easy humanity aft .. Rogerebert
2.0
This time, its a wild hodgepodge of genres that often risk collapsing on top of each other. Indie Wire
2.0
Amalrics way over the top, shouty, furniture smashing performance bluntly underlines Ismaels inner turmoil, although its never clear whether hes suppo .. Time Out
2.0
Like one of the thin skinned, self sabotaging protagonists that inhabit his films, director Arnaud Desplechin takes a promising premise and turns it i .. The Guardian
3.8
Arnaud Desplechins latest simultaneously collapses and expands his entire body of work, reflexively revealing its many layers, like a pop up book.
3.1
As Ismael, Almaric grounds the unwieldy film a shorter cut premiered at Cannes last year delivering an incisive performance that imbues his subtlest g ..
2.5
The concept of hacking is dumbed down for the laymen to mana intlo nunchi pakkintodi ki bokka pettudu. ETimes (TOI)
4.5
A narrative that is not necessarily fully comprehensible as a stand alone item but which takes great pleasure in playing with all of the writer direct .. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Ismaels Ghosts drops a number of seemingly disparate ingredients into a stew that ends up coalescing into a satisfying treat, full of surprises and fl ..
2.9
Like the director at the center of his story, Desplechin allows self indulgence to get in the way. Paste Magazine
2.5
Its true that, even on a more complete viewing, not everything in Ismaels Ghosts coheres. If it did, I suspect the movie would not feel quite so alive ..
3.0
This directors cut might smack of self indulgence, but it also says much about love and loss and the language of an artform that flirts with realism w ..
1.0
Theres no way around it: The whole, here, is a mess. Even with the extra minutes, the film seems unfinished, the connections among its disparate scena .. Village Voice
2.0
...did its protagonists increasing bewilderment really have to be paralleled by such extremes of disjointedness and pseudiness in the film itself The Times
4.4
Eventually, Ismael meets a new woman, Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Rolling Stone
4.5
Desplechin is here to remind us that all readings are subjective, that stories end differently depending on whos doing the telling and whos doing the .. The Wrap
4.5
Multiple meanings are Desplechins bread and butter and the fertile terrain of his mostly wonderful films. Like Ismael, though, he seems to have lost t .. Npr
2.0
In the end, it all feels too much of a self indulgence to take seriously. Flim List
3.5
I wish Desplechin would have just centered the film on these actors and expanded their relationship to one another. Now thats a good movie. The rest o .. Flim Threet
1.5
Desplechin mines his earlier films and his cultural obsessions for a formidable trove of narrative complications, which he flings into the script with .. New Yorker
2.0
Despite some stylistic flourishes and the occasional moment of surreal humour, Arnaud Desplechins sprawling drama is a self indulgent mess. Express
2.0
Still, the excruciatingly indulgent scene jam your fist in your gob embarrassing that sees Cotillard dancing pointlessly to Bob Dylans It Aint Me Babe .. The Irish Times
1.5
Ismaels Ghosts is a film defined by its excesses, and the most frustrating thing about it is that the leaner, better film is staring you in the face t .. Birth Movies Death
2.0
When Carlotta reappears at Ismaels holiday villa, Sylvia instantly feels threatened. Standard
3.0
Desplechins finale drains Ismaels Ghosts of its authentic Auteurist French Cinema air. The Play List
3.5
The star heros emotional outburst in the pre climax will leave you hugely impressed. 123telugu
3.0
The Nandamuri heros stunning performance, first half, and a gripping pre climax are major assets. 123telugu
4.0
Will Desplechin ever make another masterpiece like his idiosyncratic period drama Esther Kahn Lw Lies
3.0
Albert and David Maysles 1975 film Grey Gardens is among the most beloved documentaries ever made. Independent Ie
2.0
It is very womany, good fun with genuine laughs and the spirit is well intentioned. Independent Ie
4.0
Gregoire Hetzels urgent score, pared down editing and these mandarins characterful faces promise a byzantine, satisfying tale. The Arts Desk
1.0
Its all very artfully done, with plenty of inventive camera work by Irina Lubtchansky. Sandiego Reader
3.0
Marion Cotillard is a knockout as a dead woman who returns to her home after a twenty years disappearance. Shockya
4.5
Arnaud Desplechins frenetic follow up to the ethereal and sensitive coming of age romance My Golden Days represents as much a deliberate revival of th .. Film Comment
3.0
Both he and the film deteriorate in front of our eyes in spectacular fashion, the hand that holds the threads begins to feel less steady as the filmma .. One Room With A View
3.0
To say that Desplechin loses the thread would only be partially accurate. Its more like he lights the thread on fire like a fuse. Film Avclub
1.5
As a quasi comedy about an artist chasing his own tail, Ismaels Ghosts eventually falls prey to many of the same tendencies it initially appeared to b .. Film Journal International ..
3.0
Showing Ismaels film within a film breaks apart any narrative momentum. Fresh Fiction
2.0
In essence, Desplechin has concocted his own particular brand of listless art house navel gazing, and Ismaels Ghosts are neither haunting nor notable .. Ion Cinema
4.5
Desplechin imprints an athletic agility to such a potentially dense proposal, offering a masterful lesson in control. El Pais (Spain)
2.5
All in all, despite patriotic scenes, noble cause of journalism, the movie doesnt hold interest due to bad packaging.
3.8
Email: mlasalle@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle Ismaels Ghosts Drama. Sf Chronicle
2.0
Its Desplechin Amalric again, and theyve done just fine for 21 years. This movie makes one hope for more Desplechin Amalric Cotillard though. Vulture
1.5
Of course, the movie frustrates but its confusions push Desplechin toward something vital, the way his characters respond to the disjointed absurditie .. Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
1.5
Same applies for Kalyan Ram who doesnt utter a word when his close friends on mission are killed. Cine Josh
1.5
The film doesnt score high on entertainment or comedy the way Puri is noted for. Telugu 360
4.0
Desplechin seeks and finds for each precise action and each concrete scene its own cinematographic response. El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
1.5
... the film ends up feeling disconnected, unbalanced and even distant from its central triangle... Butaca Ancha
3.0
Desplechin intercuts between two stories and varied places (France, Tajikistan, Prague) brutally and almost haphazardly as each lurches along an unsat .. Dogandwolf
1.5
This is billed as the Directors Cut, leading one to wonder if the previous cut might have made more sense; at the least, it would have been mercifully .. Easy Reader News
2.5
Enchanting moments are scattered throughout, but Ismaels Ghosts feels chaotic and uneven. Dare Daniel
1.5
Arnaud Desplechins Ismaels Ghosts considers memory as a cancer, the kind that metastasizes and consumes its host, petrifying them into nothingness. Chicago Cinema Circuit



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