A24’s second major romcom of the year after the success of (the better) The Materialists, is as they say in the business “high concept”.

Set in the afterlife, as many a movie has already been there-done that, this one from Irish director David Freyne, working with a Black List script by Patrick Cunnane and having a co-writing credit, struck me as sort of a cross between Albert Brooks’ brilliant Defending Your Life and the delightful 1976 Brazilian film Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands (later the inspiration for the labored 1982 English-language remake Kiss Me Goodbye). At its heart is this love triangle in which a woman is asked to choose which husband to spend eternity with, is unapologetically old fashioned, and even a throwback to sparkling comedies of Hollywood’s golden eras l

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