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‘Another End’ Review: Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve Illuminate a Pensive, Familiar Story of Love After Death
Piero Messina's 'Another End' stars Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve in a Pensive, Familiar Story of Love After Death
Lucky for him, the “compatible” body found to house his dead partner Zoe, is that of Ava ( Renate Reinsve), whom we later learn is a stripper in a high-end fetish club who is carrying traumas and secrets of her own. Messina and his three co-writers Valentina Gaddi, Sebastiano Melloni and Giacomo Bendotti try rather inelegantly to account for them, by making up a mess of rules and conditions that don’t seem particularly based in the movie’s (fictional) science, many of which are delivered to us in explanatory speeches by Ebe’s sinister coworker Doctor Doyle (Pal Aron), who apparently got his PhD in Exposition. Still, Messina’s studied, elegant filmmaking — already on display, like his preoccupation with grief, in his debut feature “The Wait” — lends a kind of smooth gravitas even to the parts of the story that least earn it, with Fabrizio La Palombara’s classy cinematography and Bruno Falanga’s achy, nostalgic score especially useful in that regard.
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