After Life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | After Life |
| Original title | ワ ン ダ フ ル ラ イ フ , Wandafuru Raifu |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| script | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| production | Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda |
| music | Yasuhiro Kasamatsu |
| camera | Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita |
| cut | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| occupation | |
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After Life (Original title: ワ ン ダ フ ル ラ イ フ , Wandafuru Raifu [= Wonderful Life]) is a Japanese film by Hirokazu Koreeda from 1998 .
action
The film takes place in the middle of the 20th century and is located in an intermediate realm between life and death. Every Monday new deceased arrive in this intermediate realm and those who have been there for a longer period instruct the new ones. They have to choose the memory that made them happiest in order to keep it for eternity. To do this, they have to make a short film showing this memory. At the end of the week, the newly deceased watch the film in the cinema.
criticism
Roger Ebert gives the film four out of four stars and writes: “'After Life' takes into account that kitsch would destroy its sensitive material. It's the kind of movie that Hollywood likes to reissue with vulgar paint-by-numbers sentimentality. He's like a transcendent version of Ghost . "
“The sensitively staged film describes the stay in limbo without special effects and reflects on the nature of memory as well as on the question of what happens after death. A calm, thought-provoking film, the original title of which pays homage to Frank Capras ' Isn't life beautiful? '[It's a Wonderful Life] is. "
Web links
- Afterlife - After living in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review by Roger Ebert
- Review by Walter Ruggle
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/after-life-1999
- ↑ After Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 13, 2017 .