a film that reveal the unease of modern men and woman in life when confront to death . we be beyond the simple religious belief in the afterlife and and what more in any kind of hell or heaven . religion be declare dead . yet human being be more obsessed than ever by death and especially since we can push it away for quite a long time . what more the scientific and technological development of our society lead u to believe we can explain everything and know everything and do everything . that be quite typical of the end of the 20th century . today thing be change and especially when the president of the united state himself and barack obama and in a public speech to journalist speaks of their search for truth and qualifies that truth a be of course relative because it be more a quest than a final end and objective or achievement . the film show the end of the good old metaphysical thinking that be start to evolve into a truth obsession and an obsessive conception that truth be unique and irreversibly reachable . post modernism have not reach hollywood yet and though today it seem to have reach the white house . so some young doctor and medical student decide to go into death and come back . technically it be possible but the result be not surprising . it reactivate old guilty feeling and frustration that have be bury into the unconscious . one have to do with a drug addict father of a vietnam veteran who commit suicide and another with a young boy who be stone to death by some others the death tripper include and another still with a young black girl who be victimize and bully in grade school out of racism and sexism and hatred if not fear in front of her shyness . it be so naïve that you could cry out of shame for these young adult who be highly qualified and behave like baby who be cry for their bottle of edulcorated fruit juice . the film though be interest but in something quite different . the setting and the shooting and every single detail or treatment of any detail be baroque and morbid and decadent and quite in the style of death in venice or greenaway and or some other work of art that deal with make friend with the basic enemy that death be . of course that do not save the film but at least that make it worth watch . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university versailles saint quentin en yvelines and cegid .