Review of After Life (1999) by Randi S — 27 Mar 2008
This movie has an almost absurdly simple premise, that upon your death, you stay for one week at a nondescript establishment where you are asked to pick ONE memory from your life. Whatever you chose, (if you decide to chose) will be made into a short film, you will then live within that memory for all eternity.
Many of the afterlifers are real non actors and it is their memories that give an emotional weight to this beautifully realised piece, take for example the elderly lady whos recall of dancing for her brother in her new red dress is almost unbearably poignant.
It is for wonderful movies like this that I cheerfully wade through hundreds of hours of mediocre, derivative dross. A life affirming and deeply humanistic meditation on what it means to live a good life.
This review of After Life (1999) was written by Randi S on 27 Mar 2008.
After Life has generally received very positive reviews.
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