Joanna Scanlan does it again! Great story line, great acting and a movie that Hollywood could never ever deliver! Scanlan is brutally open and honest in her delivery of her character and two faces of humanity, both frailty and strength of character. This movie is a must see for those who looking for something that isn't just Hollywood entertainment.

Lovely, touching movie, great acting. I loved it.

An intelligent film with outstanding performances from every actor. Explores main characters, who all have reasons not to fit in with society's expectations, without judgement. Every scene is put together exquisitely and there is not a word or an object that is out of place. The film uses absence of dialogue as much as dialogue.

Lasted 20 mins and going nowhere. Toooo slow

Poignant performance by Joanna Scanian. Her facial expressions seem to take you directly to her heart and her pain. The film is very understated but also incredibly human as we live the torment Mary is experiencing. It is not a 'happy go lucky' film, it is tragic but yet uplifting. This is a very good film.

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.

Excellent movie and cast performance. Highly recommended.

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!!!

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.

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) 온라인카지노추천 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.

Starts off with an interesting scene and premise. Dissolves into a contrived borefest desperately trying to pull on heart strings. Has a few good moments but never takes them further. Painfully slow and unrealised. Using tropes such as religion and homosexuality to hide its poor attempt to execute an interesting story. Terribly overrated by critics who, these days, are more focused on politics than storytelling and execution. BBC are so far behind when it comes to modern cinema. Feels dated and staged. Writing is poor, whereby one can feel the french has been written by an english writer. Lack of attention to detail. The fact this has been so positively reviewed highlights what is wrong in our society today. Glorified mediocrity.

This took me completely by surprise. Just when I began to feel the filmmakers were getting lazy and relying on "wife discovers" tropes, they pulled zebra-striped rabbits out of hats. It grabbed me way before "I'm his wife" but that was a masterful moment, so understated.

Pathos, grief, and the strength of womanhood, in this british gem, and a great performance to make it work so well.

Still thinking about this movie and the amazing images months after viewing. I was so engrossed in the characters and superb acting I need to see it again to take it all in. I hope this gem of a film is shown in the States!