Synopsis
Touched by death. Changed by life.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
2010 Directed by Clint Eastwood
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Matt Damon Bryce Dallas Howard Thierry Neuvic Cyndi Mayo Davis Lisa Griffiths Jessica Griffiths Ferguson Reid Derek Sakakura George McLaren Frankie McLaren Lyndsey Marshal Jay Mohr Cécile de France Rebekah Staton Declan Conlon Charlie Creed-Miles Richard Kind Claire Price Franz Drameh Marcus Boyea Niamh Cusack George Costigan Mathew Baynton Paul Antony-Barber Selina Cadell Derek Jacobi Tim Fitzhigham Marthe Keller Céline Sallette Show All…
Steven Spielberg Clint Eastwood Kathleen Kennedy Robert Lorenz Frank Marshall Peter Morgan Tim Moore
Além da Vida, Más allá de la vida, Au-delà, Hereafter - Outra Vida, Livet efter detta
i enjoy the overall pragmatism here. there's no push for belief, rather a characteristic lack of portent from Eastwood, who clearly has much less interest in the supernatural than he does in simply observing this assortment of lonely hearts.
He said, "A life that's all about death is no life at all."
- Billy
Well I'm certainly surprised to have found that Hereafter treats its material with complete sincerity. Yes, there are moments that are terribly contrived and the child actors seem unable to deliver any of their lines convincingly but Eastwood achieves such a calm profundity for the majority of the film that I feel I could almost forget about some of the lesser points. He only breaks that placid tone in the three catastrophic events which act as intervals in the story - becoming all the more powerful as antagonistic moments. In terms of its structure it's actually pretty odd, giving each of the three stories their…
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but it had some issues. Firstly, the film got pretty boring as I only found Damon's story to be engaging. The french lady's and the kids stories were uneventful and how their stories all meet up in the end is soo contrived that it actually hurt to watch.
But like I said, it's better than I thought it was going to be. I was expecting to full-blown hate this, but the performances, especially from Damon and Howard, along with the nice cinematography, save the film when it's all said and done.
The crux of the plot is completely ludicrous, yet in a strange roundabout way it allows Eastwood to explore so many of his core interests, including death and grief as implied by the plot. I have very little to say about this one actually - what sticks with me the most is how much this film really consists of "little" moments - nothing really happens in this movie, but there are real moments of beauty throughout - like Damon (whose ability to underplay his parts makes him an ideal collaborator for Eastwood) and Bryce Dallas Howard meeting each other at cooking school, flirting and slowly getting to know each other. Moments like these are some of the hardest to get…
Big Clint was huffing the glue when he was making this one, and so was Roger Ebert when he gave it 4/4. This movie has 3 story lines and none of them are even vaguely interesting. Matt Damon can speak to dead people and he spends the entire movie avoiding it.
a tsunami hits thailand, but paris is fine.
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La Unbreakable de Clint Eastwood, que es infinitamente mejor cineasta que Shyamalan.
Very patriotic, as everything Eastwood have directed since 'Flags of our fathers' and 'Letter from iwo jima". "Americans in trouble! Let's make a movie about that!" I mean, it's great, it is an american film and i can't talk bad about it, my country haven't produced a film of this quality ever so,.... Shhhhh
A very spiritual and touching film. Although this won't be to everyone's taste, I really appreciate what this film tried to do. It was a slow burner, but was all worth it in the end. I really, really enjoyed it.
Hm...
A wildly ambitious project by Eastwood that’s fairly uneven but manages to put together some moments that are just absolutely terrific. The film’s structures itself around 3 storylines happening in three different locations that eventually come together in the film’s final minutes. Each storyline has some of the most stressful and powerful filmmaking of Eastwood’s career: opening tsunami in Thailand, the death of a pivotal character in London, and the devastating sequence involving Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas Howard.
you know maybe this movie is a masterpiece? Starting to think about this an hour after view and I think I might really love this shit
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Although frequently clunky, I think the fault lies primarily with Peter Morgan's script, which is quite a frustrating piece of work that is also very silly and bad.
Eastwood executes the playbook as best he can, though, and - to his credit - he finds more than a few moments of aching melancholy and genuine sorrow along the way. He also proves himself once again to be surprisingly adept at staging largely CGI sequences of complete chaos, with the film's tsunami opening capturing the absolute mania of such a moment in vivid detail.
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