After Life (1998)
What:
After Life (1998)
Where:
Melbourne International Film Festival (film #2048)
When:
Fri Aug 3, 12.45pm at the Forum
Tickets:
here
Contact:
9662 3722
Ignore the fairly cheesy US trailer:
here
And instead watch the opening scene:
here
Win:
We have two double passes to the MIFF screening to give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Hirokazu is my hero’
The Hirokazu Kore-eda retrospective at MIFF gives you the chance to see Distance, which is an inexplicable attempt at a horror film with all the horror stripped out of it, and Hana, bringing his low-key, televisual style to a period samurai drama. If you only can see one? See After Life. In fact, if you only see one movie from now until the day you die, After Life should probably be in the running.
New arrivals, recently deceased, show up at what looks like a battered old high school. Helpful staff interviews them to find out their single favourite memory, which is to be recreated for them – as celluloid – for eternity. Ideas of heaven, hell, punishment, and forgiveness fallaway, replaced by tiny remembered details: the consistency of clouds,the trimming on a childhood dress.
The movie finds such joy in studying their faces as they retell these stories, and without any grand statements, After Life quietly toys with answering why there’s sometimes that magical feeling when you’re watching a movie and the colours, sound, and mood all come together to catch in your throat.
Format: Festival
Mood: Rad
Keywords: Hirokazu Kore-eda
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