Après la vie (2002)

Directed by

Lucas Belvaux

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Belgium

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is the final part of a trilogy where overlapping characters and events are seen from different angles. The story follows a man trying to escape his past while dealing with a police officer and a woman seeking closure. It shows the same moments from a new perspective, making the audience see how lives cross in a small city.

melancholictensegrittysomberinterconnecteddeliberatebleakintimate

What happens

Après la vie (After the Life; also known in UK as Trilogy: Three) is a 2002 Lucas Belvaux film with his own script. It is the final installment of a series Trilogy, which constitutes a melodrama preceded by Un couple épatant, a comedy and Cavale, a thriller. Belvaux referred in the DVD commentary that main idea behind Trilogy is that the main characters in a particular story are the secondary characters of others, in such sense the three films happen at the same time and share a series of common scenes and plot points, complementing each other, but also have their own perspective and style. The audience is left with piecing the films together, which Belvaux avoided, since editing the three films into one single narrative would have resulted in a very long film with no style of its own. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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