[Kore-eda] has earned the right to be considered with Kurosawa, Bergman and other great humanists of the cinema. His films embrace the mystery of life, and encourage us to think about why we are here, and what makes us truly happy.

Mixing real-life with re-enactments, Kore-Eda constructs a theory about what people would want to keep with and avoids the heavy-handedness of the subject.

Koreeda, with a testimonial base and documentary aesthetic, examines in an emotional way the ambiguous nature of human memories that, like cinema itself, form a hybrid between truth and fiction. [Full reveiw in Spanish]

To picture a world in which "After Life" does not exist feels hollow.