Tag: Another End

3.5/5 starsPremiering in competition at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, Piero Messina’s tale of grief and memory set in the near future begins with a clever bit of word play.The words “Not here” are spelled out from the film’s title, Another End. And this is exactly what the film is about: loved ones who are gone but not forgotten. In the sci-fi- tinged world it depicts, technology has been developed to allow us to say our goodbyes even after our nearest and dearest have died.Memories can be uploaded into a willing host, a person who volunteers to become a surrogate over a series of sessions, allowing the client to access the person who’s been taken away from them.Sal (Gael García Bernal, looking at his most mournful) is the grieving widower, having lost his wife, Zoe, in a car accident for...