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THIS MORTAL COIL: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,

Our second speculative interlude on what lies behind the veil is Powell and Pressburger’s magical fantasy-romance, one of their best-loved and most imaginative works, and a near-perfect film.  Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want…

THIS MORTAL COIL: AFTER LIFE

Hirokazu Kore-eda,

Concluding the season, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gorgeous, humane film is our final representation of what may await in the great beyond. It puts an idiosyncratic spin on the relationship between death and memory explored in other, more emotionally turbulent films in…

THIS MORTAL COIL: AMOUR

Michael Haneke,

Age brings with it an inevitable degree of physical and cognitive decline. At its worst, cognitive impairment can evolve into dementia, stealing us from our loved ones and ourselves. This has given rise to the recent concept of “the zeroth…

THIS MORTAL COIL: ANXIETY + DEATH & TRANSFIGURATION

Sławomir Fabicki | Terence Davies,

In an acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical short films, of which Death And Transfiguration is the final installment, Terence Davies created an alter ego whose life the films followed in childhood and middle age, and, most audaciously, speculated on the manner…

THIS MORTAL COIL: IKIRU

Akira Kurosawa,

To paraphrase Heidegger, confronting death can lead to a more authentic relationship with life itself. This confrontation is all too frequently forced upon the unsuspecting with a diagnosis of terminal illness that sometimes precipitates a decline that must be endured…

THIS MORTAL COIL: KATI KATI

Mbithi Masya,

Depictions of worlds beyond this one are abundant throughout human history in art, mythology, and religion. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to Dante’s Inferno, and from the ennui-ridden Heaven sung about by Talking Heads to the simple, comforting…

THIS MORTAL COIL: LAKE MUNGO

Joel Anderson,

While A Ghost Story focused on a romantic relationship, Lake Mungo, also of a more overtly supernatural bent, looks at the love that endures following the loss of a family member, and the unique difficulties caused by the recurring waves…

THIS MORTAL COIL: MY LIFE WITHOUT ME

Isabel Coixet,

In contrast to Kurosawa’s Ikiru, a more socially-minded film about a man with a substantial number of years behind him, Isabel Coixet’s film stars Sarah Polley as clean-living 23-year-old Ann, wife to Don (Scott Speedman) and mother to two young daughters,…

THIS MORTAL COIL: ORPHÉE

Jean Cocteau,

Our next foray into the beyond sees us descend into the Underworld with poet, playwright, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau as our guide as he transposes the Greek myth of Orpheus to 1950s Paris.  Orphée (Jean Marais), a celebrated poet,…

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