Sunday Schmooze
Hosted by Fred Craden
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s
AFTER LIFE
Sunday, February 26th
Bagels at 10 AM |
Film at 11 AM
Members $12 | Public
$17
If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for
eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu
Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in
which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must
select a single moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take
into the next world. After Life is a profound meditation on
memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze
time. (Japan, 1998, 119min., In Japanese
with English subtitles, NR | Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)