Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
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.
A film that’s grown substantially in reputation since its release, Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer travels stateside and to a different milieu in Birth, allowing a brilliant Nicole Kidman to excel in an especially challenging role. An intriguing, dark drama—written with Jean-Claude Carrière.