Love Immortal
2025 · 12m · United Kingdom
Directed by Omer Sami
Genres: biography, documentary, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Alan, the British founding father of cryonics, preserved his late wife in the hope of one day reuniting — but when a new love rejects cryonics, he must confront what truly matters most.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a doc that *looks* like it wants to be a love story, but the real move here is how it quietly demolishes the romance — cryonics as the ultimate fantasy, and Sami just lets the contradiction sit there, unresolved, which is refreshingly uncomfortable.
A formally precise meditation on mortality and fidelity that situates itself squarely in the essay-film tradition; the restraint of Sami's approach — letting archival material and Alan's own words breathe — feels like inherited craft, the kind of considered filmmaking that respects both its subject and the form's own history.
The singular choice here is the decision to keep Alan's new partner largely unseen, letting her voice and rejection carry the weight instead — a small structural choice that reframes the entire emotional architecture and makes the whole thing feel less hagiography, more genuinely tender and uncertain.