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After Life
If you had to choose one memory to keep forever, it probably wouldn't be an achievement. It'd be something small. 🎞️
Who it's for
After Life turns the life-review process into a story: each newly dead person is asked to name one memory worth keeping forever, which prompts viewers to ask the same question of themselves.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, this Japanese film is set in a way station between life and death where newly deceased people arrive each week. Staff ask each person to choose a single memory to keep for eternity, which the staff then recreate and film.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Grief; a brush with suicide recalled.
Age: Not rated in US (suggested 12+; not verified)
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 56
