'Death Does Not Exist' Review: Stunning but Slippery Animated Feature Confronts Love in the Shadow of Death

The world as we know it is crumbling. Rising wealth inequality, a collapsing climate and the continued expansion of unchecked state violence are all bearing down on us. It's far from a cheery state of affairs, but it's in this heavy yet unavoidable reality where filmmaker Félix Dufour-Laperrière places us in "Death Does Not Exist." Thus, it's where any engagement with his work must also begin. Despite its title, this is an impressionistic film very much about how death does exist and will haunt us after the moment of loss. While the doesn't make its subtext 100% explicit, . . .