Afterlife love, choice and heartfelt drama

Hollywood’s current wave of nostalgia revives ‘90s style glossy, highconcept romances with emotional stakes and director David Freyne's Eternity fits perfectly — sentimental, witty, visually polished —and one that attempts something many filmmakers have recently shied away from: believing wholeheartedly in love.

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Larry (Miles Teller) dies and finds himself reborn into his youthful self in the junction—a limbo where the newly dead return to the age they were happiest and must choose an afterlife world to live in forever. Guided by afterlife consultant Anna (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) through options ranging from beach world to queer world to a fully booked men-free world, he refuses to decide until his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives, dying of cancer back on earth. When she reaches the junction, also restored to youth, she’s greeted not only by Larry but also by her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean war and has been waiting decades for her. With only a week to decide, Joan must pick who she wants to spend eternity with — the passionate love she lost or t