ravitchn Some American films about couples beginning to fall apart have been well done and funny even, but this film takes the whole matter far too seriously. It is a serious matter but no one wants just woe and woebegone. I much prefer "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The War Between the Tates." The French and francophone Belgians take everything too seriously except what should be taken seriously.

Tom Dooley Marie and Boris were in love once and have two daughters and a lovely house that Boris has done up mostly by himself. Somewhere along that journey the love has been reversed and now Marie can not abide the sight of her husband. They seem to have arrangements to cohabit until finances have been sorted but things are steadily falling apart.The film can be a hard watch as anyone going through a relationship meltdown or who has gone through one will know. The ways they chose to humiliate each other seem to know no bounds. Then we have the guilt trips and the fumbling make ups.It has the feel of a very well observed and constructed film. All the actors are great especially the children. What it does get for its unrelenting realism is a bleak and almost depressing film. This is as far from a 'feel good' film as you can possibly get – think 'Kramer Vs Kramer' only with better wine. As an artistic endeavour though it does have to be applauded for its achievements – but I had to watch something more cheery afterwards so do be warned.

writers_reign Although I found this a brilliant film I also found myself thinking throughout why don't this couple go to arbitration, something they actually did at the end and of course the short answer is that had they done the obvious thing from the get-go we would have wound up with at best a two-reeler. I've never found myself in the position that the two protagonists share but the overwhelming impression is that millions of couples all over the world have and are. The two leading actors are simply outstanding and the real-life twins who play their twin daughters are not far behind. I first became aware of Berenice Bejo in the cod James Bond movie OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies, in which she played opposite Jean Dujardine long before they co-starred in The Artist and I always found her watchable and more than competent but here she really comes into her own and earns a place alongside the best actresses in French cinema from Isabelle Huppert on down. Renaissance man Cedric Kahn - Writer-Director-Actor is more than a match for her and together they lift a potentially depressing film to another level.

Cinefill1 -After Love (French: L'Économie du couple) is a 2016 French-Belgian drama film directed by Joachim Lafosse. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.--Cast:• Bérénice Bejo as Marie • Cédric Kahn as Boris • Marthe Keller as Christine • Catherine Salée--Story:-After a relationship of ten years and the birth of twins Thierry and Marie decide to separate. Thierry does not have sufficient financial resources to move and Marie would the apartment which they bought together and by Thierry was fully renovated, do not sell. That is why they need to take the difficult decision after the separation under the same roof to continue to live.