That Lalami allows Driss to speak for himself initially feels like a misstep, partly because his beyond-the-grave narration disrupts the novel's logic, but mostly because it quashes early mystery generated by hints of his double life.
Wealthy art patron Bibi Chan is not about to let her recent, sudden demise stop her from joining friends on a trip to Burma; she's watched enough Desperate Housewives to know just how much mileage there is in beyond-the-grave narration and pseudo-mystical "life is, y'know... deep" monologues.
A little video popped up of Coalfield's grave, and AGNES' narration informed me that it was near Karl Marx's final resting place.
Mr. Schrader, working from a script credited to Michael Gerbosi, chronicles Crane's life in standard bio-pic style, dropping in a few flourishes like beyond-the-grave voice-over narration and a nightmarish hallucination sequence, during which Hogan's fictional predicaments merge with Crane's disorderly life off the set.
His entranced narration was a grave blanket over the program's potentially ridiculous deflections of reality.
And the decision to let Altman himself dominate the narration from beyond the grave is a witty one; he can be as curt and blunt as his films are chatty.
Francis's narration, however, continues from beyond the grave, creating a sense that Chef, not unlike Hamlet, is carrying out the orders of a ghost.
It is Ros Kosal, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's regime, whose audio narration leads you around the field, past the depressions that mark mass graves.
Ms. Lazin has managed, with carefully chosen on-screen interviews and voice-over narration by her subject, to create the illusion that Shakur is telling his own story from the grave.
Segal's wild narration explores disappointment and ambivalence in love in frank, charming, and innovative ways, such as Lucinella watching her ex mourn her from the grave.
