Though Stopkewich has astutely recognized the contradictions in our uneasy relationship to the dead, she doesn’t seem to have examined her own uneasy relationship to the story she tells.

This uncommonly assured feature debut takes a metaphysical view of necrophilia.

Kissed is about a necrophiliac, but in its approach, it could be about spirituality or transcendence.

Doomsaying about independent films... is this year's favorite kvetch, and yet movie hand grenades still manage to get tossed into our laps with astonishing regularity. Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed is a startling example.