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

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

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

[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

An irritating movie about irritating people.

| Aug 8, 2017

As sharp and savage as any breakup drama this side of A Separation.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 8, 2017

The film belongs to Bejo, who, fresh from a similarly wounded performance in Asghar Farhadi's The Past, brings texture to her character's seemingly endless exasperation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2016

This is a superbly acted, unapologetically adult exploration of a relationship atrophied.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2016

An unassuming but heartbreaking film that just may stay with you without you even noticing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2016

After Love shows that the French still have plenty to say about the bloody endgame of romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Belgian director Lafosse's After Love is like a European art-house counterpart to Kramer vs Kramer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

After Love is intelligent, compassionate, challenging film-making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Unapologetically aimed at the arthouse crowd, this is superior filmmaking. Superbly acted and well written, it stakes its claim in the pantheon of love-gone-wrong watches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

It's like Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage condensed into a shorter timeframe and only a handful of rooms, although its depiction of a crumbling relationship can be just as complex, if not quite as emotionally resonant during its final stages.

| May 13, 2016

Though contained enough to be a play, Joachim Lafosse's look at an out-of-love couple still forced to cohabitate explores that dynamic cinematically.

| May 13, 2016