Three - After Life (2002)
(Après la vie)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 124m
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Cast: Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Ornella Muti, Catherine Frot
Synopsis:
The wife of the policeman, and colleague of the two women in the first two parts of this trilogy, is hooked on morphine. So the unmotivated acts of kindness in Cavale find their context in this close study of the relationship between the couple, and especially the effects of the detective's triple involvement in this overarching drama in the form of stress and increasingly violent behaviour.
Review:
Not as objective as the first film, nor certainly as frivolous as the second, Après la vie is more than ever an actor's piece, while providing some much needed second perspectives on key incidents in the earlier parts. Melki and Blanc act up a storm, and there isn't as much music, making this less of a melodrama, as some critics have called it, and more of a classic French realist drama (cf. Téchiné).
(Après la vie)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 124m
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Cast: Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Ornella Muti, Catherine Frot
Synopsis:
The wife of the policeman, and colleague of the two women in the first two parts of this trilogy, is hooked on morphine. So the unmotivated acts of kindness in Cavale find their context in this close study of the relationship between the couple, and especially the effects of the detective's triple involvement in this overarching drama in the form of stress and increasingly violent behaviour.
Review:
Not as objective as the first film, nor certainly as frivolous as the second, Après la vie is more than ever an actor's piece, while providing some much needed second perspectives on key incidents in the earlier parts. Melki and Blanc act up a storm, and there isn't as much music, making this less of a melodrama, as some critics have called it, and more of a classic French realist drama (cf. Téchiné).
(Après la vie)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 124m
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Cast: Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Ornella Muti, Catherine Frot
Synopsis:
The wife of the policeman, and colleague of the two women in the first two parts of this trilogy, is hooked on morphine. So the unmotivated acts of kindness in Cavale find their context in this close study of the relationship between the couple, and especially the effects of the detective's triple involvement in this overarching drama in the form of stress and increasingly violent behaviour.
Review:
Not as objective as the first film, nor certainly as frivolous as the second, Après la vie is more than ever an actor's piece, while providing some much needed second perspectives on key incidents in the earlier parts. Melki and Blanc act up a storm, and there isn't as much music, making this less of a melodrama, as some critics have called it, and more of a classic French realist drama (cf. Téchiné).