Tag Archives: Afterlife

I told myself that I wouldn’t say that “Eternity” is too long, but isn’t it always? If not the premise, that is at least the guiding principle behind David Freyne’s sincere, somewhat amusing, and sweetly overextended rom-com, which splits the difference between “After Life” and “Defending Your Life” with its story of a newly deceased woman named Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) …

A24‘s second major rom-com of the year, after the success of (the better) Materialists, is as they say in the business “high concept.” Set in the afterlife, as many a movie has already been there-done that, Eternity from Irish director David Freyne, working with a Black List script by Patrick Cunnane and having a co-writing credit, struck me as sort …