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Constructed as an intergenerational visitation, the brothers’ reunion hits a rich vein of intimacy, elevated by a mysterious tone of faith and the afterworld.
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Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld.
—Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
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Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld.
—Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/afterworld. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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