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(2021)
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Meanwhile on Earth

A grieving widow navigates the bureaucratic maze of funeral arrangements.

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Have you ever stopped to think about how funerals are made? This is a rather peculiar topic for a movie, and that's what we find in 'Samtidigt på Jorden'. This carefully crafted Swedish documentary shows the behind-the-scenes of what happens after someone dies. Director Carl Olsson managed to capture something usually seen as morbid with style and lightness. Without narration, we follow all the processes of a funeral home and it's more interesting than it seems. Olsson brought a different way of building a documentary and it was a great hit.

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When we die, there are still some practicalities needed to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. Meanwhile on Earth enters the world around our end station, an industry of death. A place where the existential meets the mundane, and the sacred meets the profane.

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