{"id":8833,"date":"2017-05-24T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:10:04","slug":"the-dismael-ghosts-or-the-past-catching-up-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/the-dismael-ghosts-or-the-past-catching-up-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLes Fant\u00f4mes d'Isma\u00ebl\u00bb or the past that catches up with us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays - Loris S. Musumeci<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abDon't be jealous of ghosts, darling.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-one years, eight months and six days since Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) disappeared. Her husband, Isma\u00ebl (Mathieu Amalric), soaks his unfulfilled grief in alcohol. Her father, Monsieur Bloom (Laszlo Szabo), lives in constant horror at the thought of seeing his daughter everywhere. And then she rises from the dead, serene. \u00abI left alone. I don't know why.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

She appears on a sunny afternoon, on a limpid beach in Brittany. But it's been two years since Isma\u00ebl embarked on a clumsy path of reconstruction. He has met Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), an austere, motherly astrophysicist. The ghost, imposing itself with a naive, wounded impulse, triangulates the love affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The melodrama, with its psychological and comedic tendencies, doesn't stop there. One story interweaves with another. Ever more incomplete and suspended. In fact, it's in another plane of reality that The Ghosts of Ishmael<\/em>. Quai d'Orsay, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here we meet the mysterious Ivan D\u00e9dalus (Louis Garrel), the main character in the thriller Isma\u00ebl is struggling to direct. The author and his Ivan suffer from the same disease that inflicts terrible nightmares every night: Eleseneur syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Arnaud Desplechin's new film is all about nightmares, family, filiation, regrets and dependencies, and the passage of time. The film opened the Cannes Festival, albeit out of competition. It undoubtedly owes its success to its \u00abfilm d'auteur\u00bb genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n