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‘After This Death’ Review: Mia Maestro Can’t Get Lee Pace Out of Her System in Lucio Castro’s Elegant Oddity
'End of the Century' director Lucio Castro returns with 'After This Death,' an intriguing, elusive psychodrama starring Mia Maestro and Lee Pace.
If not quite as fully, radiantly formed as Castro’s 2019 debut, the time-slipping queer heartbreaker “End of the Century,” this unusual, sleekly atmospheric item nonetheless sees the filmmaker clearing the difficult-second-album hurdle — with, aptly enough, a story that hinges on a singularly complicated album recording process. Pregnant with her first child, and with Ted often away on business, she soothes her anxious soul with frequent solitary walks through the local landscape — captured here by DP Barton Cortright (“The Cathedral”) in a permanently autumnal state of deep coppers and bronzes, with the occasional, enduring flash of hunter green. Weeks afterward, while accompanying her friend Alice (Gwendoline Christie, somewhat distractingly cast in a stock part) to a gig, she realizes that Elliott is in fact the frontman of a rock band with an ardent cult following — their sound somewhere between an especially woodsy iteration of The National and Jim Morrison at his most loquaciously stoned.
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