First Official Trailer for After.Life

Posted by michaeljoejackson On March - 3 - 2010

Anchor Bay has just released, via Apple, the first official trailer for the upcoming thriller After.Life starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think of the movie’s unique concept. There’s some creepy necrophilia style sexuality with Ricci too, which hopefully doesn’t interest anyone, but it’s still in there. If I had to make a quick comparison, this looks like a dark intense look at the life/afterlife balance.

Courtesy of NY Times: Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The premise of After Life is simple: over the span of a week, twenty-two souls arrive at a way station (which looks like an old junior high school) between life and death, where they are asked to choose just one memory to take into the afterlife. The new arrivals include an elderly woman, a rebellious dropout, a teenage girl, and a 70-year-old war veteran. Once they have chosen a memory, it is recreated and filmed by the staff of the way station, using all the tricks and illusions of cinema: cotton balls are used to mimic clouds, a fan is used for a summer breeze. In preparation for this project, Kore-eda interviewed 500 people from all walks of life about their memories.