The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Since the heyday of Romanticism, gallant ghosts have haunted our imaginations. Sometimes troubling, sometimes amusing, they have crossed continents and eras, as well as film genres, as the films gathered here bear witness. Evanescent and elusive, these romantic ghosts are of course a source of fantasy, but they also inhabit cinema marvelously well, where they defy time, genre and mise-en-scène, between appearance and disappearance.
Nominated for Best Cinematography at the 1948 Academy Awards
Lucy Muir is young and already a widow. She leaves her family-in-law to settle by the sea in a house supposedly haunted by Captain Gregg. Far from being frightened, she meets him and doesn't run away from this specter, who nevertheless urges her to leave.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in 1909 in Pennsylvania to German immigrants. After studying in the United States and working in the film industry in Germany, he joined his brother Herman, a screenwriter in Hollywood, and began writing a few scripts himself before moving into production. In 1942, he signed his first film as a director when he replaced Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Dragonwyck. Mankiewicz continued to shoot throughout the 1940s and 1950s, making some of the most notable films of those decades: A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve, Julius Caesar, The Barefoot Contessa, Suddenly, Last Summer... He then agreed to resume shooting the oversized Cleopatra, which consumed him for three years and ended in bitterness. He directed a few more films and then ended his career with a unanimously acclaimed final work, Sleuth, in 1972.
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