ISMAEL’S GHOSTS
Filmfest 2017
(LES FANTÔMES D’ISMAËL)
France 2017
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: French)
German Premiere
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Section: CineMasters Competition
Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Carlotta, twenty years earlier. Yet he has started his life over again with Sylvia. Sylvia is his light. Then Carlotta returns from the dead. Sylvia runs away. Ismaël rejects Carlotta. Driven mad by these ordeals, he abandons the shoot for his family home in Roubaix. There, he lives as a recluse, besieged by his ghosts.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher
Credits
Screenplay: Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr
Director of Photography: Irina Lubtchansky
Film Editor: Laurence Briaud
Composer: Grégoire Hetzel
Production Designer: Toma Baqueni
Sound: Nicolas Cantin, Sylvain Malbrant, Stéphane Thiebaut
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat
Production Company: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma
World Sales: Wild Bunch
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
biography
Arnaud Desplechin, born in Roubaix in 1960, is one of the leading auteurist filmmakers of current French cinema. He is a regular at Cannes, where he screened THE SENTINEL (1992), MY SEX LIFE... OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT (1996) and ESTHER KAHN (2000), as well as MY GOLDEN DAYS (2015), which also screened at Munich.
