“A Ghost Story,” a surreal drama about death and grief, is the best movie of 2017 — so say the members of the Utah Film Critics Association, who voted Sunday on the group’s major awards.
The movie, directed by David Lowery (“Pete’s Dragon”), stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as a young married couple whose lives are altered when he is killed in a car crash. The husband, played by Affleck wearing a sheet, continues to haunt their home, even years after she has moved away.
Runner-up for Best Picture was Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk,” a visually arresting chronicle of the retreat of 400,000 Allied troops from a French beach in World War II.