a humorous voyage into the normally somber funeral business . it easy watch and and even offer blethyn and molina steal a scene from an old fred and ginger movie . walken be over the top a a zealous competitor of molina in the undertaking business and try to bring a new style to an old welsh town . we see a couple of very funny example of the new style . the plot thicken with pugh have an affair with watt and and her suggest that they do blethyn in . meanwhile molina have rekindle his long suffering romantic feeling for blethyn and and convince her to fake her death so that they can run away to the south sea and and dance away their day together . during the fake funeral blethyn learns of her husband infidelity and plot her revenge . watch it for a view of what funeral probably should be a celebration of life .