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Kiss of Life (2003)
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British director Emily Young's training in Poland is evident throughout this mournful meditation on love and loss, in which the spirit of an accident victim returns to haunt her London home and is confused to find that her children can't see her. As the woman, Ingeborga Dapkunaite lacks the emotional resources to convey the feelings and frustrations of family life. And as the husband (an overseas aid worker played by Peter Mullan) tries to get home for her birthday, his homeward trek through Eastern European squalor, which parallels the dead woman's journey towards understanding, features encounters that are either too slight or too consciously symbolic to be of interest. DP
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Running time
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83min
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Country of origin
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UK / Fr / Can
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Genre
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Fantasy Drama
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Alternate title
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Helen of Peckham
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Original language
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English / Serb-Croat
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Screenplay
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Emily Young
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Theatrical distributor
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Artificial Eye
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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January 2004
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