Weekend Movie Forecast: The Cove or Funny People

Set in both a suburb of Taipei and an Asian community in Hamburg, Ghosted interweaves two separate timelines roughly six months apart, as a feminist German filmmaker coping with the murder of her Taiwanese lover begins to fall for a mysterious journalist. Nathan Lee at the Times calls it "an elegant but unsatisfying drama of cross-cultural lesbian love triangles... The movie generates an aura of thoughtful storytelling without actually possessing any notable thoughts. Ghosted offers a refreshingly matter-of-fact view of lesbian relationships — although ones marked by schematic tragedy and intimations of the supernatural — and depicts its cross-cultural milieu with maturity and tact. Yet the film doesn’t do much with its novel setting, and resolves on a note of exotic Asian mysticism that undermines its ambition to sidestep cliché."