Fresh off its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, indie drama Sometimes I Think About Dying seems to have impressed some critics.
Based on Kevin Armento's play Killers, and the subsequent short film, the movie follows Fran (played by Star Wars' Daisy Ridley), a young woman who is constantly thinking about dying.
However, this fascination with her own mortality is challenged when she develops a connection with her colleague Robert (Dave Merheje). As the pair start to date, Fran tries her best not to stand in her own way.
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You can read the first reviews below.
"Fran is too distinctively drawn to be just an avatar, but the impressions of her solitude are aching reminders of how modern life nurtures an unsettling separateness.
"No time was that more evident than during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when quarantine measures revealed the degree to which many of us live in isolation.
"Sometimes I Think About Dying, then, is a graceful treatise on how challenging — but liberating — it can be to make connections."
"For a film about the pull of death, there sure is a lot of life in this low-key charmer.
"[Rachel] Lambert’s initially mannered style suits the film’s wonderfully funny first act, as we’re introduced to Fran (Daisy Ridley, getting a chance to show off the kind of nuanced acting that didn’t have a place in her Star Wars turns), her dreams of dying, and the spectacularly boring life that might make anyone ponder the great beyond."
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Ridley will next be seen in the upcoming Disney+ movie Young Woman and the Sea, which recently wrapped production.
Based on a book of the same name by Glenn Stout, the drama follows the life of Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle as she pushes herself to make record-breaking achievements.
Ridley takes on the lead role of Ederle, and will be starring alongside Peaky Blinders actor Stephen Graham and I Am Woman's Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
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