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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

A Dead Body in Taos review – a spiritual exploration of what it means to be really free

Eve Ponsonby as Kath in A Dead Body in Taos, with a projection of her younger self behind her.
Eve Ponsonby as Kath in A Dead Body in Taos. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

A woman is urgently summoned to New Mexico after a dead body is found in Taos, a desert town. Sam (Gemma Lawrence) confirms it is her mother, Kath (Eve Ponsonby), only to discover that Kath still exists – or one version of her – as a cyborg in whom her mother imprinted a lifetime’s memories before her own death.

Is Kath immortal now? Is she even alive, to some degree? Or is this a story of financial manipulation in which Kath has been persuaded to leave all her millions to a “future life” company promising eternal, virtual existence?

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