Presence (4 Stars)

This is the third film in the Stuttgart White Nights Festival.

It's a haunted house story, which is a common genre that's been overdone for years, but "Presence" has an original idea. The whole film is shown through the eyes of the ghost. The ghost watches the family moving in, he/she watches them settle in and go about their daily activities, and he/she follows the family members from room to room, attempting to communicate with them by moving items.

I say he/she, because the identity of the ghost is never determined. The daughter Chloe suspects that it's the ghost of her friend Nadia who recently died of a drug overdose.

The film excels by having strong character development. Every family member is unique, and they're all interesting in their own ways.