"A Ghost Story" will be FOLA's film on Saturday, October 20 at 7 PM in the Heald Auditorium at Ludlow Town Hall.

A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery. It stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky, and Liz Franke. Affleck plays a man who becomes a ghost and remains in the house he shares with his wife. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017.

Roger Ebert, the renown film critic, summarized the film thusly: "I rarely see a movie so original that I want to tell people to just see it without reading any reviews beforehand, including my own. David Lowery's "A Ghost Story" is one of those movies. So I'm urging you . . . to just see it and save this review for later. . . . This tale of a man who dies young and lingers around the property where he and his wife once lived is bound to be one of the most divisive films of the year. I didn't know anything about it going in, except that its main character was a person who dies and spends the rest of the movie walking around mute, wearing a white sheet with eyeholes cut out of it. The film is a ghost story, in the sense that there's a ghost in it, but it's also many other things: a love story, a science fiction-inflected story about time travel and time loops, and a story about loneliness and denial, and the ephemeral nature of the flesh, and the anxiousness that comes from contemplating the end of consciousness".

A. O. Scott, film critic for the New York Times, noted: " 'A Ghost Story' works so well because it shouldn't work at all. Starting with a quote from Virginia Woolf, it wears its literary pedigree on its sleeve, yet it manages to feel fresh and inventive rather than stale or studied. It's like an old tale by Saki or Henry James read for the first time: hair-raising and clever, a tour de force of sensation and a triumph of craft".

The movie is open to everyone and is free; donations are appreciated.

Popcorn will be supplied by Berkshire Bank and water by FOLA. For information, call (802)228-7239 or visit the FOLA web site at www.fola.us.