AFTER.LIFE .World Cinema

When are the dead in fact dead? In its pleasure at simultaneously embracing and sending up horror genre conventions, AFTER.LIFE suggests that the line between the living and the dead is thin indeed. Christina Ricci and Justin Long (fast earning a reputation as the busiest man in American movies) play a sophisticated couple on the emotional razor’s edge: Paul wants to tie the knot while Anna is hardly ready for the leap. What neither count on is the sudden presence in their lives of Liam Neeson ‘s undertaker, Eliot, who claims to have a gift of talking with the dead. The truth of the matter is something that first-time feature director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo-fresh off her acclaimed short PATÉ-en joys toying with. But the most fun is watching Neeson discovering fresh variations on a ghoulish role of the kind that was once the province of Vincent Price.

Details

Country: USA

Year: 2009

Director: Agnieszka Vosloo

Producers: Brad Michael Gilbert, Celine Rattray, William Perkins

Director of Photography: Anastas Michos

Editor: Niven Howie

Cast/Featuring: Christina Ricci (Anna Taylor), Liam Neeson (Eliot Deacon), Justin Long (Paul Conran), Josh Charles (Tom Petersen), Chandler Canterbury (Jack)

Running Time (minutes): 97 min

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