L'économie du couple

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L'économie du couple

Released Aug 9, 2017

1h 40m

Drama

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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."

Rated: 2/4

Sep 14, 2017

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Scott Marks

San Diego Reader

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.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 1, 2017

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

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.

Aug 31, 2017

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Leigh Monson

Substream Magazine

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.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 2, 2020

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

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.

May 13, 2020

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

After Love is a very realistic, touching, and at times poignant even view on a couple's separation, divorce, and division of assets.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 17, 2020

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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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Mummy and Daddy hate each other.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Felt very real. The happy moments and the sadness. Even amicable break ups have these moments.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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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. :)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Difficult and honest look to an end of a relationship. It is hard going but with enough ups and down to be rewarding.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Beautifully shot with two actors in perfect unison, a hard look at a relationship gone wrong who uses more humanity and realism than cheap movie tricks. L'Economie du Couple (or After Love) is an intense claustrophobic confrontation between two characters full of uncertainty, flaws and wrongs and rights. This is not about Love but about Life, with all its awfulness.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Marie Barrault

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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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