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After Sex (1997)

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2

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A middle-aged woman temporarily abandons her role as wife and mother to embark upon a mad love affair with a man 20 years her junior. Up until the time she meets handsome young Emilio, Diane Clovier had a relatively happy life with her husband, kids and career. Emilio, with his amoral charm, is the antithesis of her life and Diane throws herself into a heated frenzy of lovemaking and romance with him. She shows little regard for the destruction she causes within her family. Her husband Phillipe,

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Narcissistic, skin-deep, cautionary tale about the dangers of middle-aged married women having flings with young men.

July 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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A hauntingly honest and provocative look at what an all-consuming love can in fact consume.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Rouan's writing, as far as can be judged from subtitles, is pointed and vital. Her performance is superb.

January 1, 2000 Comment
New Republic
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By the end of the film, we have come to admire Rouan's courage as a performer and a filmmaker, in following Diane's mania as far as it will go.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Weak, superficial, and unconvincing, it turns what could have been a searing experience into a trite, overwrought melodrama.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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This raw, compelling drama of amour fou is an emotional tour de force for Roüan.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

The film is dominated by the raw intensity of Rouan's performance.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

The French may imbue romantic and sexual turmoil with a bit too much sturm and drang, but at least they examine intimate emotions that Americans nervously avoid.

March 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Movieline | Comment
Movieline

In the end, pursuit of shallow torrid sex can't fully explain her sketchy motivation for discarding her perfect life, but the tragic overtones are palpable throughout.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: E! Online | Comment
E! Online

Rouan succeeds in showing both the dark and light sides of passion.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Jam! Movies

Wonderful at bringing out an adage repeated by Diane: 'When you're twenty and love goes wrong, you cry because you think you'll never love anyone again. After 40, you cry because it's far more likely that you never will again.'

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Compuserve | Comment
Compuserve

an unusual film about human sexual relations - both because it's told completely from the woman's perspective and because it shows graphically but always tastefully the heat of passion.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | Comment
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