| Artistic License | Release Date: May 12, 1999 |
Summary:
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
It isn't conventional drama or plot twists that make After Life moving. Rather, it's the exquisitely tender memories that come floating to the surface of this or that interviewee's mind. [11 June 1999, p.D6]
At first, it seems stagy and slow and even to verge on the pretentious, but the film steadily accumulates dramatic power as its carefully sketched characters reveal their internal lives. By its end, After Life has developed into one of those haunting movies whose scenes can pop back into your consciousness hours or days after you have seen it. [12 May 1999, p.56]
A lyrical, mysterious and provocative meditation on the power of memory and narrative, After Life is a fascinating speculation on life and death -- until its plot takes a turn so melodramatic that the spell is broken. [20 Aug 1999, p.3E]
Sep 21, 2018
Slow fary tale with too many talk without much action. Don't have patience to watch until the end. But recommend you to see "Still Walking" (2008) by the same director.
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