ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

LES FANTÔMES D'ISMAËL

By Arnaud DESPLECHIN

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Drama - Completed 2017

Director Ismaël Vuillard abandons a film shoot and flees when a woman he believed to be dead re-enters his life with devastating results.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2017
Out of Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Budget
    • 5 - 10 M$
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arnaud DESPLECHIN
    • Writer(s)
    • Arnaud DESPLECHIN, Julie PEYR, Lea MYSIUS
    • Producer(s)
    • Pascal CAUCHETEUX (Why Not Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • 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.