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After Love

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Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
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After Love isn't easy viewing, but its brutally honest examination of a crumbling family offers powerful performances and penetrating insights that make it well worth the effort.

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Peter Keough Boston Globe 09/14/2017
2/4
It's a lot of skill and talent expended on a spat a good lawyer could probably have sorted out during the opening credit sequence. Instead Lafosse offers a lot of the "after," and none of the "love." Go to Full Review
Scott Marks San Diego Reader 09/01/2017
3/5
For most of its running time, director and co-writer Joachim Lafosse gives the impression that he's drilled a hole into the side of a married couple's home in order to afford audiences an unmediated, worm's eye view of their gradual dissolution. Go to Full Review
Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times 08/31/2017
Messy and ungovernable at its strongest, Lafosse's film is a story of heartbreak and real estate and, not least, money, viewed from within the still-smoldering ruins. Go to Full Review
Leigh Monson Substream Magazine 10/02/2020
4/5
After Love is a film of harsh truths and humanistic empathy, finding a middle ground between love turned to hate and tolerance so that one may more fully love one's children. Go to Full Review
Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review 05/13/2020
Bejo and Kahn are so good at illustrating shades of cruelty and kindness in their performances that it's near impossible not to feel the tension and volatility of the situation. Go to Full Review
Emilie Black Cinema Crazed 04/17/2020
4/5
After Love is a very realistic, touching, and at times poignant even view on a couple's separation, divorce, and division of assets. Go to Full Review
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Claudio C Dec 1 L'économie du couple / After Love (2016) The End of a Relationship (12,101 – 01 Dec 2025 – by Claudio Carvalho) After several years of marriage, Marie Barrault (Bérénice Bejo) and Boris Marker (Cédric Kahn) are separated but living under the same roof. They have two daughters, Jade Marker (Jade Soentjens) and Margaux Marker (Margaux Soentjens), but cannot afford to buy an apartment for Boris. They belong to different social classes and Marie says that she supported Boris throughout their life together. But Boris claims that he renovated their house, reason why it is valuable. Marie’s mother Christine (Marthe Keller) likes Boris, but her daughter loathes him despite the advice of her mother that after the desire, friendship should keep the marriage. "L'économie du couple", a.k.a. "After Love" (2016), is a Belgian French drama by Joachim Lafosse about the end of a relationship, The house the couple lives is the pivot of the discussion, since Marie does not want to share the value with Boris. The daughters are the only link that remains loved in the family, and the discussions between their parents are witnessed by them several times. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "A Economia do Amor" ("The Economy of Love") My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ See more 08/04/2017 This portrait of a gradual break-up is grinding yet human. The director arouses great sympathy in us for mum, dad and the twin girls, and the actors play their parts so perfectly such that you resist siding with one against the other. You feel for both man and woman, and wring your hands at the impending, slow demise of their relationship, and the inevitable impact it will have on their delightful girls. One of the realest and least Hollywood movies I've seen in fair while. See more 02/18/2017 Mummy and Daddy hate each other. See more 01/27/2017 Felt very real. The happy moments and the sadness. Even amicable break ups have these moments. See more 12/03/2016 Um bom filme que, depois de A Separação e O Passado, parece um pouco redundante. Ao menos, fiquei até o final, o que não aconteceu com Juste la fin du monde. Por mais exasperante que seja a rotina deste casal, aquela família do filme do Dolan é insuportável. :) See more 11/28/2016 Difficult and honest look to an end of a relationship. It is hard going but with enough ups and down to be rewarding. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Director
Joachim Lafosse
Producer
Sylvie Pialat, Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart
Screenwriter
Mazarine Pingeot, Fanny Burdino, Joachim Lafosse, Fanny Burdino, Joachim Lafosse
Distributor
Distrib Films US
Production Co
Le Pacte
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 9, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 30, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.6K
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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