Elizabeth Olsen Faces Afterlife Love Triangle in Eternity
A24 has released the official trailer for Eternity, the upcoming fantasy romantic comedy directed by David Freyne. The film is scheduled to be released nationwide on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
Eternity, which has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for sexual content and some strong language, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7.
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
The movie stars Miles Teller (The Gorge), Elizabeth Olsen (Marvel Zombies), Callum Turner (Masters of the Air), John Early, Olga Merediz, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
In Eternity, a love triangle breaks out in the least expected place: the Afterlife. From this whimsical concept blooms a bold, heart-stirring rom-com, a journey into a charming pop vision of post-earthly existence and how we measure a lifetime of love and happiness.
When Larry Cutler (Miles Teller) unexpectedly passes before his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen), he’s shocked to awaken in a chaotic waystation, where panicked sellers hawk an endless supply of possible afterlives. Here, he learns from his assigned Afterlife Coordinator (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) that he has just one week to confront the ultimate dilemma: where, and with whom, to spend eternity.
But when Joan arrives soon after him, she finds her first love, Luke (Callum Turner), has been waiting in limbo for 67 years to be with her. She is faced with an impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and the man who promises her the life she could’ve lived.
The question at the heart of Eternity‘s charms is what might, for each of us, give the Sweet Hereafter its irresistible sweetness. Lit by spirited performances from an irresistibly charismatic central cast, director David Freyne conjures a fresh, funny, and unabashedly romantic vision of the afterworld as a visually dazzling playground of human dreams and the backdrop for the most significant decision one will ever face.
The rules of this afterlife quickly become clear. Each new arrival lands, dazed and confused, at the Junction, a cross between a grand railway station, a convention center floor, and a Mid-Century hotel. Appearing as the age they were at their peak happiness in life, the newly deceased are bombarded with billboards, ads, and fast-talking salespeople peddling options for perpetuity: from Man Free World to Capitalist World, Surf World to Infantilization World.
But once you choose your eternal destination, there’s no going back. And if you can’t decide, you must take a service job in the Junction, residing in a shabby studio apartment until you’re ready to move on.
In Eternity, Freyne winks playfully at the many movies that have gazed upwards before. But he also took his own enchantingly handmade approach to crafting a next life that brings into focus all that we hunger for in this world. At the heart of The Junction is an all-encompassing shopping mall, putting on offer every human obsession, pipedream, and happy ending that ever floated anyone’s boat. It’s designed to get people in and out as fast as possible.
Intensive world-building for a world that could rely on little else but uncorked imagination took Freyne to his creative edges. But his anchor for the storytelling was a light-as-clouds, tender touch with the characters at its heart.
