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This unpretentious, endearing film is a modest triumph. Based on interviews with more than 500 people about the one memory they would choose to take with them to heaven, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda has modeled a unique blend of documentary and fiction that addresses the vagaries of memory but also what it means to make films.After Lifetranspires in a sort of way station where the dead must select one memory to be re-created on film and taken on with them forever, relinquishing everything else. Over the span of a week, a dedicated group of caseworkers tease out self-deceptions as well as real epiphanies from 22 different lives. An old woman remembers reuniting with her husband on a crowded bridge after World War II; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a successful man faces his own treachery. Remembering becomes a courageous act in the casual exposition of this lovely film.--Fionn Meade
enchanting movie watched the movie a few years back, and was really touched. definitely one of my favourites.
This is a beautiful film. The performances are nuanced and articulate, the emotion delicate. This film will encourage you to think about your life in a new context. A very intelligent and evocative piece.After Life - dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu This is a sensitive film by a Japanese director on the subject of life and death. Its pace is gentle and contemplative, it is charmingly, sometimes playfully acted and envelopes the audience in an aura of peace and respect. Hirokazu examines the greatest mystery with which we all have to deal some time or other in our lives - what is death, and consequently what is life and what is the value of life, or rather each of our own lives? There is no overt influence of religion, philosophy or other grand ideas or theories, rather we are left to draw our own conclusions based on the experiences of real people which are presented to us.
Because of the occasional almost banal nature of stories related by certain of the protagonists I got the impression that the film had a tendency to meander, but this hardly detracted from depth of thought behind the ideas and the sincerity of the acting.
