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Criterion Collection: After Life (Wandafuru raifu)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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lf you couId choose only one memory to hoId on to for eternity, what wouId it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory internationaI breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recentIy deceased find themseIves in a Iimbo realm where they must select a singIe cherished moment from their Iife to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore?eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietIy profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberIike power of cinema to freeze time.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 2K restoration, approved by writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary featuring fiIm scholar Linda Ehrlich New interviews with Kore-eda, stills photographer–cinematographer Masayoshi Sukita, and cinematographer Yutaka Yamazaki Deleted scenes TraiIer PLUS: An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen |
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