Burning Ghost
French Cinema • Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Juste (Thimotée Robart) 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 (Judith Chemla), 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?
Stéphane Batut offers a nocturnal stroll through Paris with this ghostly, dreamlike, bewitching film that is reminiscent of the poetics of Jean Cocteau.
DIRECTED BY STÉPHANE BATUT
FRANCE | 2019 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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