Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard in latest movie by French director Arnaud Desplechin

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The latest film by French director Arnaud Desplechin features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard and Mathieu Amalric.

The movie was presented last year at the Cannes Festival as the opening film. It will open in San Francisco on April 20, 2018.

We will be invited to see the Director’s Cut, with additional footage not shown at the Cannes Film Festival

The casting is nothing but brilliant. From Marion Cotillard, unsettling and mysterious, to Charlotte Gainsbourg, moving and vulnerable. Mathieu Amalric is fighting with his ghosts, confused between delusion and reality. Louis Garrel brings his own personal facetious touch and Hypolite Girardot obviously enjoys being the nutty producer.

The story briefly (but is it possible to make it short?)

Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film. As Ismael's trials and tribulations unfurl, so too do those of his film's protagonist: the idle, funny and reckless diplomat Ivan Dédalus (Louis Garrel). The character is a nod to the ghost of another of writer/director Arnaud Desplechin’s creations, the brother of Paul Dédalus, three-time hero of My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, A Christmas Tale and My Golden Days. A film within a film—and then some, Desplechin layers narrative upon narrative. With Ismael’s Ghosts, he returns once more to the past, creating film after film as his way of stepping back in time, and proving yet again that his brand of genius lies in his ability to find light in the darkest of places.

The trailer...