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After Love

2020

Aleem Khan

Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss, Nasser Memarzia ...

6.9

1,736

Drama Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Anchored by a phenomenal performance by Scanlan, this is an accomplished debut from writer and director Aleem Khan which employs elegant mirrored scenes and repetition to explore the threads that link the two women."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Joanna Scanlan gives the best performance of her career (...) After Love has the agony of a domestic tragedy and the tension of a Hitchcock thriller (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"It’s a short but jolting journey, an exercise in social and geographic disorientation that British-Pakistani filmmaker Aleem Khan probes to layered, thoughtful effect in his auspicious first feature 'After Love.'"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"A measured, powerful, thoughtful work (...) driven by a thoughtful, mesmerising, ego-less performance by Joanna Scanlan (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"All the acting is superb and the dialogue (...) is full of lovely and organic little shocks (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Thomas Floyd The Washington Post	"Actress Joanna Scanlan is devastating as a woman facing first grief, then betrayal in a BAFTA-winning performance (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"'After Love' is not an accurate description. It is about characters who find that a broken heart is open to empathy and learn to recognize that what connects us is so much more than what divides us (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Contrivances may test some viewers, but they won't be a deal-breaker for everyone, and Khan's actors do a lot of good work to try to make the details ring true (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"Mr. Khan's delicate, low-key humanism makes 'After Love' affecting"	POS
United States	Christian Zilko IndieWire	"A beautiful, jagged exploration of the messy nature of being human"	POS
United States	Beatrice Loayza The New York Times	"Consider 'After Love' a rarity; these days, a good adult drama —the kind whose power is premised on the intricacies and deceptions that shape our everyday relationships— is hard to come by"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"It's a giant performance in a perfectly measured film of simmering tensions (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"[A] sensitive study of grief, cultural assimilation and secrecy (...) Deftly photographed and paced (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"A transcendent chamber piece (...) A miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion"	POS
Australia	Harris Dang The AU Review	"'A devastating drama that rises above the sum of its parts thanks to its lead trio and Khan’s assured storytelling. Highly recommended (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Compelling and complex tale of betrayal. Joanna Scanlan shines in this subtle drama of a widow who learns a shocking secret (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"[An] excellent debut (...) A film that is unafraid to analyse and forge new ways of thinking about European culture and heritage"	POS

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