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Après l'amour
1992 Romance / Comedy / Drama
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Credits
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Director: Diane Kurys
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Script: Diane Kurys, Antoine Lacomblez
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Photo: Fabio Conversi
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Music: Yves Simon
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Cast: Isabelle Huppert (Lola),
Bernard Giraudeau (David),
Hippolyte Girardot (Tom),
Lio (Marianne),
Yvan Attal (Romain),
Judith Reval (Rachel),
Ingrid Held (Anne),
Laure Killing (Elisabeth),
Mehdi Joossen (Simon),
Florian Billion (Olivier),
Eva Killing (Caroline),
Ana Girardot (Juliette)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 104 min
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Aka: After Love; Love After Love
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Summary
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of
mid-life trauma are beginning to bite. She currently lives with
architect David but has started to have an affair with another man, a
musician named Tom. Both David and Tom are married, and each has
two young children. Whereas David feels comfortable about leaving
his wife for Lola, Tom is hesitant, even though it is Tom that Lola
really loves...
Review
In one of her better films, Diane Kurys paints a vivid and rather
moving portrait of mid-life crisis - as experienced by the generation
that, in their bra-burning youth, participated in the 1968 riots and thereby caused
a cultural revolution in France. Kurys’s films are noted for
their honest depiction of brittle human relationships and complex
portrayals of femininity in a world where women find it increasingly
challenging to balance the requirements of family and work with their
own emotional needs. Après
l'amour is particularly memorable for its subtle blend of
realism, irony and pathos - a familiar love triangle as seen through
the eyes of a woman of great perception and sensitivity. Kurys's intelligent and incisive screenplay
is well served by a superlative
cast, with strong performances from Isabelle Huppert (the star of
Kurys’s earlier film Coup de foudre), Bernard
Giraudeau and Hippolyte Girardot.
© James Travers 2008
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