‘Next Life’ Review: Emilia Clarke Lives Alternate Life-Changing Choices In Drake Doremus’ Rich And Jazzy Romdram, Tribeca Film Festival

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Drake Doremus's 'Next Life' follows Emilia Clarke through an alternate-reality romance that explores the roads not taken. The film, premiering at Tribeca, reflects the director's own pandemic-era reckoning: his 2019 film 'Endings, Beginnings' now reads as inadvertently prophetic, arriving just before Doremus ended a relationship and met his current wife during a chance encounter in Madrid. Clarke's character navigates parallel timelines and competing loves in what Deadline calls a "rich and jazzy" romantic drama that channels Doremus's newfound perspective on fate and choice.