Eternity has heavenly twist, Left-Handed Girl gets it right

The story: Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) has died and arrives at a posthumous terminus, where she has a week to choose either of her two late husbands for her onward journey to eternity.

- Whang Yee Ling

Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner in Eternity.

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Will it be Larry (Miles Teller) from her second, 65-year marriage, who expired days before she did from choking on a pretzel?

Or Luke (Callum Turner), who has been waiting for their reunion since his tragic end in the 1950s Korean War?

Afterlife was already a bureaucratic way station in the beloved comedy Defending Your Life (1991). “The Juncture” has become an even more dispiriting tourism expo with booths peddling a directory of final destinations from Beach World to Capitalist World. Man-Free World is regrettably sold out.

There is much to enjoy in the American fantasy love triangle Eternity, beyond the imaginative world-building of Irish director-cum-co-writer David Freyne.

Except for Luke - who, having died young, will forever be a dashing war hero played by British actor-model Turner - the characters have reverted to their 30-something selves, and the performances are ebullient.