1997, 97 min
A.K.A.: Post-coïtum, animal triste
Country: France
Studio: New Yorker Films
Cast: Brigitte Roüan, Patrick Chesnais, Boris Terral, Nils Tavernier, Jean-Louis Richard, Françoise Arnoul
Director: Brigitte Roüan
Rating: Unrated
Our Rating:
After Sex
SKINOPSISA successful, married woman starts an intense affair with a much younger man, jeopardizing her career and family. Brigitte Roüan is the married woman in question, who reveals her small breasts several times in the film.
REVIEW
Passionate love scenes and emotional despair mark After Sex, an erotic-neurotic middle-age-crisis drama from France. Director Roüan stars as Diane Clovier, a forty-something publishing executive who begins an unexpected romance with Emilio (Terral), a shaggy-haired hydroelectric engineer twenty years her junior. Jeopardizing her career as well as her life with her husband and two sons, Diane becomes consumed with the intense sexual relationship. However, it ends abruptly. Roüan, who employs jump-cut editing to tell this fractured story, threatens to make After Sex a vanity production, but there are only a few really pretentious moments. A subplot involving Diane's husband Philippe (Chesnais) defending a neighbor of murdering her husband reinforces Diane's predicament, and nicely compliments the film¹s feminist themes. (aka: Post Coitum) (French with English subtitles) Editor's Suggestions
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