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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 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.

| May 13, 2020

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2020

Stay away, couples in crisis. It's too real. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The repetitive, insincere, and ultimately pointless dialogue in this crucial scene thoroughly tinges one's impression of the whole film.

| Nov 10, 2017

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."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2017

[After Love] is even painful for us viewers.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 13, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Slow moving, the movie wades through a sea of hostilities while we wait for a major blow-up or a thaw in the ice that allows these two to reveal something about what made them a couple in the first place.

| Sep 1, 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.

| Aug 31, 2017

Intimacy might be a source of irritation, but in After Love it can be downright excruciating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2017

Lafosse, along with actors Brnice Bejo and Cdric Kahn, infuse the film with a brutal honesty that makes it, if not exactly enjoyable, certainly compelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2017

"After Love," directed and cowritten by Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse, is an insightful and involving drama centering on the collapse of a marriage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2017

[Joachim Lafosse's] camera favors a glum vrit that simply records the unraveling of love.

| Aug 24, 2017

After Love is sometimes hard to watch-but that's mostly because it's boring.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 21, 2017

A moving, unflinching drama with raw performances by Brnice Bejo and Cdric Kahn.

| Original Score: 8.88/10 | Aug 11, 2017

[A] perceptive drama ...

| Aug 10, 2017

Most films about relationships on the rocks center on things like betrayal and guilt and lust. Rare is the work that tackles one of the most common and corrosive sources of conflict among couples: financial instability.

| Aug 9, 2017

Though undoubtedly a flawed enterprise, After Love is a formal wonder, due to the efforts of Lafosse, photographer Jean-Franois Hensgens, and production designer Olivier Radot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 9, 2017

The film too often puts too much trust in dialogue, as Marie and Boris's predicament is sometimes perfectly conveyed by the actors' facial expressions and body language.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2017