Birth (2004)
Careful what you wish for.
Director: Jonathan Glazer · Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière, Milo Addica, Jonathan Glazer
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
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Trailer
Director
Jonathan Glazer
Cast
Nicole Kidman
Anna 
Cameron Bright
Young Sean 
Danny Huston
Joseph 
Lauren Bacall
Eleanor 
Alison Elliott
Laura 
Arliss Howard
Bob 
Michael Desautels
Sean 
Anne Heche
Clara 
Peter Stormare
Clifford 
Ted Levine
Mr. Conte 
Cara Seymour
Mrs. Conte 
Joe M. Chalmers
Sinclair User Reviews (1)
You know I loved Sean so much, and its been so long that I still can't get him out of my system. I remember when it was released in 2004, there was a big hurrah about "the" bath scene, many vitriolic complaints about how slow it was, how not scary it was et al. Birth is many wonderful film making things, of course not all of those things will resonate or enthral many of the movie watching populace, yet there is such craft on both sides of the camera here, and an atmospherically ambiguous bloodline pulsing throughout, that marks it out as a particularly striking film. Plot finds Nicole Kidman as Anna, who is about to be re-married but finds her world tipped upside down when a young boy (Cameron Bright) arrives on the scene and announces he is the reincarnation of her dead first husband... Director Jonathan Glazer and his co-writers Jean-Claude Carrière & Milo Addica are purposel…
