Birth

Birth

2004 · 100 min · EN · R · 6.0 (764 votes)
Dir. Jonathan Glazer · Starring Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott, Arliss Howard · Music Alexandre Desplat

Careful what you wish for.

DramaMystery

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

VIBE

A somber, psychologically rich slow-burn, it plunges into the disquieting depths of grief and obsessive love. The film crafts an elegiac, atmospheric experience, questioning identity and the boundaries of life after death with an unsettling, melancholic romanticism. It's a deeply felt, enigmatic journey.

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