Burning Ghost

2019 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

4
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 520 520

Plot summary

Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?

Director

Stéphane Batut Photo
Stéphane Batut

Top cast

Jacques Nolot Photo
Jacques Nolot as Le vieux fantôme
Saadia Bentaïeb Photo
Saadia Bentaïeb as Kramarz
Daphne Koutsafti Photo
Daphne Koutsafti as La jeune femme de l'atelier
Judith Chemla Photo
Judith Chemla as Agathe
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974.87 MB
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French 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 46 min
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French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   es   fr   it   kr   pt   ru  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kirpianuscus

beautiful...

...or meditative or poetic or eccentric. A seductive portrait of afterlife and sentimental connections or hope or forgiveness . Romantic and provocative. Moving. Short, a film who you deserve as good stop of time, for reflecting about life, for the need of special fairy tales.
Reviewed by EdgarST 7 / 10

Fine first film

To my list of contemporary films about kind ghosts, who go through life fulfilling tasks, loving and seeking meaning, I now add this fantasy melodrama, deliberately hyper-romantic with the music of Benoit de Villeneuve and Gaspar Claus, which won the prestigious Louis Delluc award for Best First Feature of French Cinema in 2019.«Vif-argent» (mercury or quicksilver, literally) is the work of Stéphane Batut, an actor in a few movies, whose main activity in the French film industry has been as casting director, selecting casts for more than 60 features. For this film, he chose the boom operator Timothée Robart to play Juste, a 20-year-old boy who appears by a lake, unaware that he has died, and who, instead of being listed as dead by afterlife officer Kramarz, is sent here to accompany the recently deceased to their new "residence". But one day, in the subway, Agathe, a 30-year-old woman, sees him, then she follows him and finally assures him that she met him in Turkey ten years ago and that they had a romantic adventure, which they rekindle. When Juste falls in love, Kramarz informs him that his time on this plane is over and the young ghost resists.Juste's main problem is his invisibility. Some people do not see him and, after a while, Agathe too, from a moment on in the plot, in which the story became a bit complicated for me without needing to be, with musical bursts that ended up breaking the hypnotic effect of the film had on me for more than an hour.However, there is a lot of charm in this story, in the characters (Juste's naivete, the African couple of Alpha and Bailo, Agathe's Italian grandmother, the short, moving monologue of Juste's father) and in the locations (the Paris of emigrants, with peddler's tents in the streets, African turbans and robes) that keep interest alive. Good start for a directorial career, which can bear better fruits in the future.
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