After Life is an unusual depiction of life’s endstation, or more correctly: life’s last stop before the souls are set free. On their last trip the deceased must find one memory they want to take with them into the afterlife, with a team of bureaucratic soul-guides to help them make their choice. These memories shall later be reproduced and recorded. The film is visually pared down to make room for the relationships, Kore-eda’s great strength. With equal doses of humour and warmth, he provides a new outlook on life and death, great questions that here are made liberatingly down-to-earth. akek

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