Paul has a strange job: he writes funeral orations. Read more …
Victor, his friend and neighbor, no longer knows what to do to shrug off his loneliness. One day Emma, a young widow, asks Paul to do a curious thing and tell her 8-year-old son about his dead father. A relationship then forms between Paul and Emma, but the ghosts of the past come to haunt them. A love story... with ghosts!
Low key but charming.
It’s an unsatisfying, maudlin conclusion to a rather insignificant supernatural offering.
It is papery and insubstantial.
The director Vincent Lannoo doesn't have quite the Lubitsch touch but, in its own slightly flimsy way, Paper Souls makes pleasant enough viewing.
You need to take all of this with a large pinch of salt but the cast is game and it is as light as a soufflé.
Failing to establish any Ghost-style internal logic to justify the sudden narrative leap, any worthwhile ideas simply get lost amid confused and silly plotting.
A writer of funeral orations is visited by a ghost in a fantasy that’s cliched but occasionally poignant.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday January 16, 2015, until Thursday January 22, 2015. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/