Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing have provided us with the official domestic trailer for acclaimed director Arnaud Desplechin's new film Ismael's Ghosts (2017), starring Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Jacques Nolot, Hippolyte Girardot, Alba Rohrwacher, and Bruno Todeschini. The film will open in theaters across the nation on March 23.
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.
*In the United States, director Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is available on Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection.