Post Mortem is very slow moving and it never really picks up. The head scratching confusion reminds of French film making. It has a couple of really good moments that will stick with you, such as a scene during which the two main characters enjoy a good cry, a prolonged sex scene, and the final drawn out scene involving moving furniture, but all in all it's a lot of this and that without much cohesion. Basically a civil servant in charge of documenting autopsies falls in love with a bulimic showgirl who belongs to a communist group that is wanted by the state. When the state begins indiscriminately murdering the communists, our protagonist must hide his love behind a cabinet in his wall--except one problem: she has a boyfriend. There are some very explicit scenes of naked dead people but beyond that there isn't any real violence or action. The film is very moody and slow, interesting enough to sit through but not something you'll probably go and rave to your friends about. If you're a film student or just love foreign films you'll probably dig it. I thought it was okay but just wished something more suspenseful would have happened. It can't all be about atmosphere.
Review of Post Mortem
