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‘Another End’ Star Gael García Bernal and Director Piero Messina Discuss the Central Question Behind the Berlin Drama: ‘What Happens After Death?’


Gael García Bernal and Italian director Piero Messina talk Berlin competition drama 'Another End,' in which Bernal and Renate Reinsve star as lovers.

Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worst Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s unconventional sci-fi film “ Another End,” which is competing in Berlin. Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, the English-language film sees Bernal play Sal, a man who loses his wife. In terms of the type of sci-fi tone Messina chose for “Another End,” he and Bernal agree that it was important to keep digital devices and anything high-tech off-screen, since the film is set in either an alternate present or a near-future in which technology is embedded and nonvisible.

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