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The Aftermath

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Original title: The Aftermath
Year: 2019
Running time: 109 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: James Kent
Screenwriter: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse. Novel: Rhidian Brook
Music: Martin Phipps
Cinematography: Franz Lustig
Cast: Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Phillips, Claudia Vaseková, Flora Thiemann, Fionn O'Shea, Alexander Scheer, Tom Bell, Frederick Preston, Joseph Arkley, Jim High, Abigail Rice, Anna Katharina Schimrigk, Jannik Schümann, Logan Hillier
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-Germany-United States;
Fox Searchlight, Scott Free Productions, Amusement Park Films
Genre: Drama | 1940s. II World War
Synopsis: Postwar Germany, year 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

Critics' reviews

"Attractive and diverting, as any well-appointed film starring these actors in mouthwatering period finery could hardly fail to be."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"[It] delivers extraordinary imagery in tune with an environment (...) Yet no pretty pictures can salvage 'The Aftermath' from sinking into familiar melodramatic beats, and it’s here that the actors fail to convince."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"[It] is neither logically coherent nor emotionally satisfying (...) Few can smolder like Skarsgard, yet his inevitable affair with Rachael has little heat."

Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times
"A handsome period piece whose fine cast is matched by respected source material (...) it has enough highbrow trappings to seduce some moviegoers who crave adult fare."

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"Atmospheric but not immersive, attractively cast but unmessy, and fine with touching on a moment in time instead of dealing with it (...) [It] comes off, regrettably, like a period widget."

Robert Abele: The Wrap
"Could a worthwhile film actually have been carved out of this tear-jerking mess? It’s possible (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"The emotional flashpoints (...) are frankly forced and unconvincing (...) A holiday romance and the well-intentioned performances lead nowhere (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
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