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After Life|Criterion Collection

After Life

Criterion Collection
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Overview

In Kore-eda Hirokazu's AFTER LIFE, a group of people, recently deceased, arrives at the outskirts of heaven. There they spend a week deciding which of all the memories from their lives they most want to spend eternity in, and heavenly counselors help them in the process. The dead souls help each other come to terms with what was most important to them while they were alive. Shot in a realistic yet slightly dreamy light, this touching and humanistic look at life and death carefully avoids being overly sentimental and is widely hailed as a masterpiece.

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Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD
  • Run Time: 119
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515263016
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: August 2021

Movie Reviews

Notes:
AFTER LIFE features Kyôko Kagawa, who appears in many of Akira Kurosawa's films, and Susumu Terajima, a regular in the movies of actor-director Takeshi Kitano.

Reviews:
"...Koreeda's unique achievement is that he has turned a deeply personal and private problematic into a mirror of every viewer's own fears, desires and memories. 'Masterpiece' seems not too strong a word..." - 10/??/1999 Sight and Sound, p.36


"...Thoughtful....High concept art with a heart..." -- Rating: B+ - 09/22/2000 Entertainment Weekly, p.57


"...[A] brilliant, humorous, transcendentally compassionate film....AFTER LIFE has its own austere beauty..." - 05/12/1999 New York Times, p.E5


"...Poignant almost beyond words.....A meditation on the randomness of pleasure, of memory, of life itself....Accomplished with a level of delicacy and restraint that is rare and welcome..." - 07/09/1999 Los Angeles Times, p.C8


"...A film that reaches out gently to the audience and challenges us..." - 08/06/1999 Chicago Sun-Times, p.34


"[A] meditation on memory and death....[A] work whose magical beauty will shine through..." - 05/11/2012 Wall Street Journal

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