Nine Days / After Life
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Time: It’s of the Essence. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Nine Days (2020)
Edson Oda’s profoundly moving first feature is a low-fi fantasy film that premiered in 2020 and was rarely screened in theaters. Nine Days features evaluator Will (the remarkable Winston Duke) and a series of candidates who are being tested and observed for a chance at life over the course of nine days. What transpires is an exploration of the inexplicable, the moments that add up over time to make one feel alive.
DCP, color, 124 min. Director: Edson Oda. Screenwriter: Edson Oda. With: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård.
After Life (Japan, 1998)
After Life is set in a small, mid-20th century, social service-style office, acting as a waystation, where the souls of the recently deceased are processed before entering heaven. "Heaven," for the film, is a single happy memory from one's life, re-experienced for eternity, which each of the deceased must choose within their seven days at the waystation.
DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles, 119 min. Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda. Screenwriter: Hirokazu Kore-eda. With: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima.
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