After Life

No one does it like Koreeda. There are few directors who have been able to produce such strikingly human films; Kiarostami, Kobayashi, Kurosawa (at times), Ozu, Wenders, or Herzog with his documentaries all come to mind, and top of the pack for me is Hirokazu Koreeda.  Unfortunately After Life is the brand of slow that it is a bit harder to recommend to people who aren’t into slow, contemplative films but if you can meet it where it is I don’t think there is another cinema experience quite like this. It’s top five for me for a reason.