Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood has already become one of the greatest movie directors of all time, and each new film by the one-time cowboy of spaghetti western fame is eagerly awaited by critics and the public alike. After "Gran Torino" and "Invictus", we now have "Hereafter", and its couldn't have been better- at least by moviegoers, although the film's critical reception at the Toronto Film Festival wasn't as good as expected.
The cast is lead by Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cecile De France, Derek Jacobi and Marthe Keller, and was written by Peter Morgan (writer of "Frost/Nixon" and "The Queen"), "Hereafter" is a thriller where supernatural themes take center stage, and where teh protagonists are people who, whether directly or indirectly, have experienced death up close. The movie could thus be classified in the fantasy genre, a total departure for Eastwood.
A French TV journalist (Cecile de France) suffers a near-death experience during the tsunami that struck Asia in 2004; a single, drug-addicted mother (Lyndsey Marshall) loses one of her twins in a traffic accident; and the character played by Matt Damon, it turns out, can communicate with the dead...although he has reasons for not choosing to do so. The two women get in touch with him looking for answers, as well as consolation.
