Is there life hereafter? Clint Eastwood’s contemplative-some would say dour-movie says there is. Three stories are linked in this drama exploring one of the most frequently asked questions: the meaning of life and death. George is an American with a tie to the afterlife, Marie a French journalist and Marcus a London schoolboy. It is their interconnections and involvements in recent events (the tsunami, the 7/7 London bombings) that interest Eastwood. But critical response has been mixed. ‘One of the reasons that Hereafter works as well as it does -it has the power to haunt the skeptical, to mystify the credulous and to fascinate everyone in between’ (New York Times). ‘A beguiling blend of the audacious and the familiar; it dances right on the edge of the ridiculous and at times even crosses over, but is armored against risibility by its deep pockets of emotion, sly humor and matter-of-fact approach to the fantastical’ (Variety).
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