Ismael's Ghosts

Ismael's Ghosts
Film poster
FrenchLes fantômes d'Ismaël
Directed byArnaud Desplechin
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Pascal Caucheteux
  • Vincent Maraval
Starring
CinematographyIrina Lubtchansky
Edited byLaurence Briaud
Music byGrégoire Hetzel
Production
company
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures (United States)
Release date
  • 17 May 2017 (2017-05-17) (Cannes)
Running time
114 minutes
(Cannes cut)
135 minutes
(director's cut)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$3 million

Ismael's Ghosts (French: Les Fantômes d'Ismaël) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher, László Szabó, and Hippolyte Girardot. The film follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin, just as he is about to start shooting a new film, by the return of his wife, who disappeared 20 years ago and whom he thought dead. Ismael's Ghosts premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as the opening film.