A24 has already jumped into the love triangle fray this year with Celine Song’s Materialists. But in the upcoming romantic comedy Eternity, A24 and writer-director David Freyne put a heavenly twist on love triangle tropes.
The film stars Miles Teller as Larry, a recently deceased man who finds himself at the Junction, the gateway to the afterlife. Here, the dead have a week to choose the one place where they’re going to spend eternity — options include Studio 54 World, Man-Free World, and Paris — and who they’re going to spend it with.
For Larry, that choice is easy. He wants to spend his afterlife with his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen), who arrives at the Junction not long after he does. However, there’s one major wrinkle in Larry and Joan’s plans for a happily ever after: Joan’s first husband, Luke (Callum Turner). Luke died early into their marriage, and he’s been waiting for Joan for 67 years in the afterlife. Now, Joan faces a tricky decision: Spend eternity with her first love, or with the man she spent decades married to?
Thus begins a week-long competition for Joan’s heart (and future afterlife), one that gets two afterlife coordinators (played by Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early) extremely invested. Who could blame them? I’m already invested from the trailer alone! This is eternity we’re talking about, people!
Get your own taste of Eternity‘s afterlife in the trailer above, which promises plenty of love triangle drama and gorgeous retro production design. If this is the afterlife, then sign me up.
Eternity will premiere at 2025’s Toronto International Film Festival. It hits theaters this Nov.
