Film Review – Eternity

The afterlife offers incredible potential for storytelling. It’s a setting of mystery and extraordinary fantasy, permitting filmmakers to play with the details of the unknown, finding ways to explore the complicated mess of living as it comes to something of an end. Albert Brooks scored a major creative success with 1991’s “Defending Your Life,” offering a romantic and comedic take on the process of passing on to the next phase of existence. Now co-writers Patrick Cunnane and David Freyne (who also directs) riff on the same idea with “Eternity,” zeroing in on the pressure involved when the recently deceased are tasked with choosing their forever home. “Eternity” means to be light, but the premise can’t deny certain troubling realities, and the writers offer a mostly balanced appreciation of the central crisis, making an intermittently funny and emotional study of an impossible choice set in a strange wonderland of options. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com