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[David Desser]

Todd Bowman wrote:

>Hirokazu Kore-Eda has a new film showing at the Toronto International Film
>festival next month called AFTER LIFE. The press notes describe the film as a
>"luminous new film from Festival discovery Hirokazu Kore-Eda (MABOROSI). In
>it, the recently deceased are encouraged by guides to create a personal heaven
>from a single memory of their choice.  

This sounds incredibly and bizarrely like the soon-to-be-released Robin
Williams-Cuba Gooding, Jr.-Annabella Sciorra film, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (d.
Vincent Ward) scheduled for released in the US later this year. 
Coincidence?

David 

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