Being Dead The film adaptation of Jim Crace's award-winning novel that follows a mid-life couple's effort to rekindle their marriage by traveling back to the place where they fell in love -- only to arrive at the point of their sudden deaths.
Elizabeth Marvel Linus Roache Kathryn Erbe Don Scribner Rafael Silva Peter Donahue Ayana Brown Emilotte Persson Daniella Alma Nicholas Wilder Matthew Luret James Wilcox Gavin Peretti Desiree Christa Ricker Aaron Andrade Esther Hafner Luis Fernando Patino Salvador Coco Nicole Marisela Romero Donna Sorbello Dimarco Dalton
USA
USA
I guess I watched this for Elizabeth Marvel. But this was confusing, unfocused, and poorly structured.
50/100
There are a lot of stands to John Meyers’ Being Dead, a film which opens with a laughably soap-operaric double murder, and then branches into a drama about an estranged family, life long regrets and decomposition. Married academics Celine (Elizabeth Marvel) and Joseph (Linus Roache) are withdrawing into themselves and their research, so Joseph suggests that they abridge the distance by returning to the place where they fell in love during a field expedition on the coast when they were in college.
Whilst attempting to rekindle their passion and confront a secret tragedy, their estranged and rambunctious daughter Syl - played by the scene stealing Emilotte Persson - struggles to hold down a steady job, and spends her evenings…
