Made in Heaven (1987)
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
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Beautiful film. I've watched it over and over and over. It's a favorite of mine. The music always grabs my heart and the trials they go through to god eachother is real struggles we all go through and give up. It's just what you dream of that you meet someone to connect this way with. It's like the first time all the time.
I love this film. For those of us who have ever felt a little bit of "heaven" in our lives, this film feels very real. First, the settings on earth in what appear to be the 1950's seem quite real, for earth at the time. Then there's "heaven", shown to be a fantastical loving highly evolved place that exists only to inspire us here on earth to believe in ourselves, in something better, to have faith in a more positive future. Then our return from heaven to earth, with hope in our hearts and faith in our souls, ready to fight the fight we all must face while living our human lives. With what the heart feels in the form of pure love being the most profound and respected by those watching us from above. I highly recommend.
Love is absurd. Heaven is absurd. A movie about love and heaven may also be absurd or render the absurdity of love and heaven as palpable, revealing and refreshing. This movie truncates two lifetimes into two hours and leaves you with the sense that, for at least some of us, love is all that more powerful when we allow for the supernatural, the absurd components, to mix with biology. The fascinating consideration is that the woman was made (four-letter word for conceived) in Heaven and only subsequently was earth-bound. The existentialism is indeed fascinating in spite of the temporal truncation. As the poet Michael Biscardi has written, "There are some truths that serve where facts do not."
Something like this needs to be whimsical, and this is very heavy-handed. It starts out flat stays that way. I was optimistic in spite of the negative reviews because of the cast, but the cast isn't at fault. The look and tone of the movie are uniformly depressing, and the story is not at all engaging. I was very disappointed by this movie...