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I saw Eternity<\/em> at TIFF 2025 after a brutal morning watching the amazing, yet heartbreaking Hamnet<\/em>. I have never needed a pick-me-up so bad, and this was the perfect movie for that. Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner are an excellent trio, and the supporting cast had me howling. Eternity<\/em> was creative, fun, funny and meaningful and was definitely my favourite comedy at TIFF 2025.<\/p>\n Eternity<\/em> explores a hilarious \u201cthere is no heaven or hell\u201d afterlife. After a husband and wife, Larry (Miles Teller<\/a>) and Joan (Elizabeth Olsen<\/a>), both die within a week of each other, they are forced to choose the right afterlife for them. There\u2019s only one catch: Joan\u2019s first husband, Luke (Callum Turner<\/a>), who died in the war, has been waiting 67 years for her to show up. Now Joan must choose who she wants to spend an eternity with, her husband of 65 years, or the man she never got a chance with.<\/p>\n Something I hadn\u2019t considered before going into the film is that Larry and Joan both die as elderly people. In the afterlife, you revert to your happiest self, so though everyone looks young, they are still in their 80s at heart. This means that Olsen and Teller spend the entire film acting like a cranky old couple, and it works so, so well. Teller nails playing a complaining, complacent 80-something, and Olsen is the perfect match.<\/p>\n There are points in Eternity<\/em> where Joan is swooning over Luke, but the second she speaks to Larry, she clicks back into that wife of 65 years, and their banter is top-notch. The comedic timing between these two is outstanding, and it made the film that much more funny. Luke, on the other hand, died 67 years ago, so everything about him is from another time. His romantic side feels like it comes out of an old movie. The writing in Eternity<\/em> perfectly captures these moments in time.<\/p>\n