Stories of Ghosts Who Infest the Living: “…(I)t does not take death to make ghosts of some of us. This year’s Cannes International Film Festival showed several tales of earthly spirits bearing earthly sorrows — lost souls leading the half-lives of those who never learned how to inhabit their own houses or jobs or marriages or even skin.

One such film was Joel and Ethan Coen’s Man Who Wasn’t There, which opens Wednesday. It’s the story of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a small town barber in California in 1949 who is unable to grab a piece of the American dream.” NY Times [“FMHreader”, “FMHreader”]