Despite starring Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film has already been met with scathing reviews, being labelled “atrocious” by one critic.
Cannes Film Festival has just begun, Arnaud Desplechin’s French drama Ismael’s Ghosts kicking off the prestigious affair.
In their written review, Variety compared Ismael’s Ghosts to Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, widely known for being one of the worst films of all time.
The A.V. Club’s AA Dowd was also somewhat more positive, admitting the film “loses the three” but “in a delightfully digressive Desplechin way”.