'After Love is a blistering take on what it means to be a woman': why every woman needs to watch this film debut starring Joanna Scanlan AfterLove joannascanlan
, exquisitely portrays Mary’s morphing emotions from grief to painful humiliation as her life and identity are called into question.
Through nuanced symbolism, economical but perfectly formed camera shots and staggering performances from the cast, Khan paints a devastating portrait of a dumbfounded woman in freefall as her steady life comes crumbling down.Mirrors crop up frequently and we often see Mary looking into them trying to remind herself of who she is. “Hello… I’m Mary,” she whispers desperately into a bathroom mirror trying to assert herself as everything she’s ever known is put into doubt.
Maternal grief is also at the centre of the story. The film is bookended by births, and swirling at its centre is a granite headstone that reveals yet another secret: the death of Mary and Ahmed’s first and only child at just a few months old.
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