After.Life

“Life is the symptom. Death is the cure.”

In a funeral home, Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) wakes on a preparation table after a car crash, with the mortician Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) already readying her for burial. He tells her she has died and that his work is to ease the dead toward acceptance. Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo keeps the camera close and the rooms quiet, letting the doubt sit in the long stretches between his words.