Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent 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.
Reinsve plays Zoe, the woman who rents her body for the implantation of Bernal’s wife’s consciousness. Rounding out the cast is Bérénice Bejo as Sal’s sister Ebe.
Newen Connect is handling international sales of the Indigo Films-RAI Cinema production. What attracted Bernal to the role was “the philosophical journey that he goes on, because this film challenges an elemental question, which is: What happens after death?
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