Emily is dead, yet she is more alive than any character in the land of the living. She cracks jokes, sings jazz numbers, and throws raucous parties where skeletons play piano with their own rib bones. Her decomposition is her character design—worms crawl through her eye socket, her hand occasionally falls off—but her heart remains intact.
The most striking element of La Sposa Cadavere is its visual dichotomy. The film creates a deliberate contrast between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. la sposa cadavere