A dazzling white landscape can be as hallucinatory as a desert mirage. It’s almost as if, in this small, scattered village surrounded by a vast, snowy emptiness, the locals, who all know one another like the back of their hands, are not only struggling to deal with their loss but are actually in need of other people to populate their lives. Consider Cary Grant in 'Topper' (1937), the obvious inspiration for David Koepp, who directed and co-wrote 'Ghost Town' with John Kamps. It is a reminder that the funniest people are often not comedians, but actors playing straight in funny roles. In this respect Ghost Town Anthology may call to mind Robin Campillo’s 2004 film Les Revenants, though in that case the return of the dead was examined in terms of its psychological, economic and sociopolitical effects on living relatives here, for much of the film it’s left unclear whether the return of the dead is real or imagined, an ambiguity which is very effectively sustained by slightly grainy 16mm cinematography and a very subtle use of sound. 'Ghost Town' is a lightweight rom-com elevated by its performances. While Côté never takes the story – adapted from a novel by one Laurence Olivier – down the horror-movie path, his film is frequently very unsettling in its suggestion that Simon, and indeed other deceased members of the local population, may not really have moved on to another realm after all. But then some of the inhabitants – Gisèle, nervy neighbour Adèle, even the confident restaurateur who’s planning to buy a run-down property with a troubled history – start hearing sounds and seeing strange figures, either standing out in the snowy fields or, more disturbingly, briefly glimpsed in their own homes. A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her. With Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. The mayor, meanwhile, proudly refuses help from Montréal when a counsellor turns up to advise the locals on their shocking loss insisting her door is always open to anyone who wants to talk, she argues that the community is strong and sensible enough to deal with its grief and simply move on. Ghost Town: Directed by Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg.

His mother Gisèle refuses to countenance the notion that his death might have been suicide, though his slightly older brother Jimmy, who is himself pretty bored with life in the village, suspects that Simon felt frustrated by country life and saw no other way out. Sideways Citizen Cope The Beatles - Im Looking Through You Wilco - Please Be Patient With Me Mark J. The film begins with a speeding car careering off the road into the snow, and within minutes we learn that the driver, Simon, was a 21-year-old very popular among the 215 inhabitants of Irénée-les-Neiges. Songs and music found in movie Citizen Cope - Sideways.

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