Edgar Soberon Torchia Lucas Belvaux ends his trilogy with « Après la vie», with an ending that seems a happy one, but full of deep melancholy. If «Cavale» was an intense action drama and «Un couple épatant», an entertaining chain of entanglements, in this final installment he opts for realism in the style of films like «Born to Win» and «Taxi Driver». It is because this third film tells us with minutiae the relationship between the police Pascal and his wife Agnes, who is addicted to morphine. And to complicate matters, he is the one who supplies her with the drug. When the plots of the first two movies (the escape of an activist and the suspicion of adultery, respectively) cross their lives, everything becomes completely altered. The arrival of the fugitive suddenly makes Pascal aggressive and violent, because the supply of drugs stops. Pascal (Gilbert Melki, a good Belgian actor with the ideal face for a police drama) cannot control his wife Agnes (Dominique Blanc, extraordinary actress) with her dose at hand. When Agnes asks him for help, as detective to her friend Cécile (Ornella Muti), Pascal becomes confused. Cécile suspects that her husband is cheating on her, and, frustrated by his own emotional life impeded by Agnes' addiction, Pascal believes that he has fallen in love with Cécile. Other subplots are resolved and secrets revealed, as the relationship between the fugitive and a mean pusher, or the sudden confession of who was the real informer responsible for the activists going to prison. However, it is the Pascal-Agnes relationship that dominates the film: it becomes a desperate search for morphine, and absence of love in a harsh society. A great trilogy that I recommend not to miss if it comes your way.

GUENOT PHILIPPE I loved these three films - trilogy - as I discovered it back thirteen years ago. I loved the scheme, this symmetry existing between those three features, the scheme where a main character in one movie becomes a supporting one in the following one. This scheme reminds me Nicolas Winding Refn's PUSHER trilogy. The stories are not the same as in this trilogy, but the way of frame, structure of those tales is exactly the same. And so unusual too. I am surprised that no one has pointed it out yet. As far as I know, I have not watched such way of telling in any other trilogies. New ways of screen writing are very hard to make, I guess. They prefer the PULP FICTION one or those many movies where several fates collide between the characters. Lucas Belvaux is not a pretty good actor, his way of acting is not convincing at all, but as a director, he's different. He always gives us very interesting films.

runamokprods This intense drama of a cop trying to deal with his morphine addicted life puts more pieces in place of the world of stories Belvaux has created. It is fascinating to see scenes that played as comedy in part 2 "An Amazing Couple", repeated here, exactly as they were, but now they feel dead serious because of the change in context. The only problem for me – and most critics disagree, is that for me this was the weakest of the three films, the acting sometimes over the top, character logic sometimes vague or missing. I felt disappointed, because after part 2 made me like part 1 even better, I was hoping part 3 would raise the whole into more than the sum of it's parts, into 'great film event' territory. Sadly, that didn't happen for me – maybe because I was expecting too much. I'd certainly give this another shot, and it's absolutely a good film, with some very touching moments. It just felt a little more obvious in how it brought the trilogy's stories and themes (obsession, blindness in service of an idea or need) together than what I wished for.

sagedolt I just saw all three movies and have to say that I liked them all. They are good each in its own way. Repeating scenes - every time from a different point of view, the same actors and heroes but different aspects. It is not one story told several times. It is more of several stories (or several lives?) entangled and inseparable from each other.The only negative thing is that the movies are long. So long that I won't buy them on DVD when they will be available (or will I?)But one thing is sure: I'll go watch the next movie made by Belvaux, whatever it might be. This guy will show me something interesting.