After Life
aka Wandafuru raifu First screened in August 2018
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda. Cast: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Kei Tani, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa, Natsuo Ishidô, Taketoshi Naitô, Sadao Abe, Yûsuke Iseya, Tôru Yuri, Sayaka Yoshino, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kôtarô Shiga, Hisako Hara. Screenplay: Hirokazu Kore-eda. Twitter Capsule:
Meditation on artistry, memory, and mortality, managing an amazing emotional directness despite its elaborate conceits.
VOR:⑤
Huge boost globally for Kore-eda. Atypical of his films in genre and metafilmic convolution but quite typical in its warmth and intricacy. Quietly prodigious.
