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ldsleem Excellent movie and cast performance. Highly recommended. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Wayne M After Love is a strong and quietly powerful drama that is both subtle and moving. Mary Hussain lives in Dover, a quiet life with her husband. When her husband suddenly dies it obviously turns her life upside down. But there is more as messages on his phone leads her across the channel to Calais where she finds a women and teenage son who actually were also her late husband's family. This is a very quiet film with spare dialogue. It relies heavily on feelings and facial expressions, leading to a highly effective film about secrets and grief and understanding. Joanna Scanlan is superb as Mary, a very empathetic performance drawing on great depths of humanity. This intelligent film is a very good display of the strange and subtle ways of life and love. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review Colin C Beautiful performances by the stellar cast, especially by the incredible lead. Subtle and emotionally overwhelming at the same time. The painterly cinematography and perfect sound design made this an especially sensorial experience. A seemingly simple premise and production, but packed an incredible punch. Rivetting. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Faith M This breathtaking beautifully acted, written and shot stayed with me days after viewing. I can't wait to see it again to see more nuances vs worrying about the main characters. Scanlan deserves her Batfa award and more. Great debut by Aleem Kahn working with cinematographer Alexander Dynan. Just beautiful!!! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review isla s This is a film about grief/loss and identity. It features a powerhouse performance from Joanna Scanlon and is well worth a watch. It's quite sparse in terms of the dialogue but Joanna does well at showing her character's emotions while stay relatively quiet. It'd be hard not to feel sorry for her, discovering her recently deceased husband's double life. I found this to be a very poignant film. Somewhat understated but certainly a thought provoking and poignant watch, I'd definitely recommend this film, yes. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Ken R This reminds me of the kind of movies the English BFI used to make back in the 50s-60s - except then, they knew they had limited outlets, so made them short for the experimental market (the thoughtful ‘Together' '56 comes to mind). This British/French production might have been better as a 40min featurette or a 1 hr (max) TV show but here, has been stretched out to feature-length, and even at 90mins creaks and groans its way to its laborious end. British/Pakistani writer-director Aleem Khan has a reasonable grip on grief but pads out his stories transfer to the screen with ponderous, overly arty shots, often knitted together in a visually clumsy fashion --minimal dialogue and situations bordering on unbelievability-- with many scenes ending up as self-aware navel gazing.This is the stuff Film Festivals and fringe cinema thrive on, especially when it unnecessarily adds trendy homosexuality to its agenda-pushing themes. Chris Roe's minimalist music score is well used and the cinematography is stylish, all performances are professional but its overall entertainment appeal will be certainly limited. Some might even sum this up as one of those movies that unfold in two speeds; slow and dead stop. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/20/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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