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Original title: Aprés la vie
Release Date
• USA: Feb 13, 2004
• UK: 5 Dec 2003
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Running Time
2 hours, 4 minutes
Country France, Belgium
Studio Magnolia Pictures
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Other Titles
• Après la vie
• Trilogy: Three (2003)
• After the Life
• Three (2003)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Drugs, Police, Melodrama
Plot: A cinematic gamble without precedent, this ambitious project comprises three films, in three disparate genres, that provide not so much the same action from different perspectives, but rather, different pieces, consequences, and results of the combined actions of all the films. Structurally reminiscent in certain ways to Krzystzof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, (its literary inspiration was Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet) it takes the idea of ever-expanding narrative webs to an exciting new level. The first film is a fast-paced thriller, the second a romantic comedy, and the third a melodrama; each of the feature length films can be seen alone, but each feature narrative gaps that can only be filled by viewing the other films. Seen together they're a remarkably cohesive and satisfying achievement that has the effect of creating a fourth film that exists only in the viewer's mind. Director Lucas Belvaux himself plays one of the lead roles, accompanied brilliantly by Dominique Blanc, Catherine Frot, Ornella Muti, Gilbert Melki, and François MorelAFTER THE LIFE (APRÈS LA VIE) - The final installment in Belvaux's masterful trilogy is a melodrama that follows Pascal, a cop who seeks a redemption of credibility in the capture of escaped
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Ornella Muti
Flash Gordon, Stasera a casa di Alice, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things |
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Monsieur Ibrahim, Venus Beauty Salon, Intimate Strangers | | François Morel
Bonheur est dans le pré, Le, Grosse fatigue, Beaumarchais the Scoundrel | | | |
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