Ghost Town Anthology

Name: Ghost Town Anthology
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: April 21, 2020
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Diane Lavallée, Hubert Proulx, Jean-Michel Anctil, Jocelyne Zucco, Josée Deschênes

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MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): April 21, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Diane Lavallée, Hubert Proulx, Jean-Michel Anctil, Jocelyne Zucco, Josée Deschênes, Larissa Corriveau, Normand Carrière, Rachel Graton, Rémi Goulet, Robert Naylor

Summary: In the small isolated town of Irénée-les-Neiges with a population of 215, supernatural activities begin to unravel after a man dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for his family and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning.

Director: Denis Côté

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Feb 21, 2019

Ghost Town Anthology percolates with the sadness of a place bracing for its untimely death–a landscape populated by psychically damaged wanderers, fumbling after an identity within and beyond the town that wouldn’t exist without them, and vice versa. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

Feb 14, 2019

Inviting mystery, ambiguity, and a pervasive sense of unease, Ghost Town Anthology is an entrancing yet unsettling allegory that builds like the pressure of an approaching storm that never quite arrives. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

May 7, 2020

He and Côté write an ode to human resilience; they compose a soliloquy about lost identities; they paint a portrait of people seeking meaning, guidance, warmth. The result is a soulful cinematic treatise on the gradual, painful loss of a city’s soul. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Feb 14, 2019

Ghost Town Anthology lacks the human touch it needs to satisfy beyond its symbolism, but if Côté’s 96-minute curio takes far too long to thaw, it’s never more spookily enthralling than in its final moments. Read full review

David Davidson

Mar 14, 2019

Côté has a reputation of being something of a punk filmmaker. But if there is anything transgressive about Ghost Town Anthology it is its optimistic vision, where instead of having characters remain alienated and separated, they come together, find themselves and form a community. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Mar 12, 2019

You don’t have to travel very far anywhere in Canada these days to see towns whose economic and social life-signs are so weak, you practically see ghosts yourself. Ghost Town Anthology merely brings that feeling to life – or death. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Feb 14, 2019

Denis Côté’s eerie fantasy drama juxtaposes the mundane and the parochial with the supernatural, to sometimes disquieting effect. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Oct 29, 2022

I enjoyed this film. Its subtle and understated yet certainly somewhat sinister/spooky. It has quite a good atmosphere about it and is a bit unsettling after a while. The plot is a little slow but its worth waiting for the situation to come to a head, as it were. There is quite a surrealI enjoyed this film. Its subtle and understated yet certainly somewhat sinister/spooky. It has quite a good atmosphere about it and is a bit unsettling after a while. The plot is a little slow but its worth waiting for the situation to come to a head, as it were. There is quite a surreal element or aspect to this film - its quirky and not too over the top in a tacky way. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to others, yes.… Expand

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