CiNEMERCATOR - Hirokazu Kore-eda After Life 1998
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
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15-10
What memory would you live with forever?
Hirokazu Kore-eda imagines began his career as a documentary filmmaker for Japanese television. That background shaped his later fiction work. He imagines the afterlife not as a kingdom of heaven but as a modest bureaucratic waystation, a celestial social service office where the newly dead are interviewed by calm, underpaid clerks, who help them choose one memory to take with them into eternity. The premise is simple enough to sound sentimental, yet Kore-eda executes it with a philosopher’s restraint and a documentarian’s eye for human behavior.
Formally After Life sits between fiction and ethnography. Kore-eda famously based many scenes on real interviews and that texture shows. The camera doesn't linger on action but on listening. The stillness is not decorative but ethical. He gives each person the dignity of time and space to remember. What emerges is less a story about death than about the fragile architecture of memory itself. If most films about the afterlife promise transcendence, After Life offers recognition. It suggests that eternity is not an elsewhere but a single moment, held with absolute attention.
This film is chosen by Elisabeth.
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