2008 · drama · mystery · thriller
Afterwards
Directed by Gilles Bourdos1h 47m2008
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though he doesn't believe the doctor, events in Nathan's life slowly make him think he's not long for this world.
Our read: Afterwards (2008) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · mystery · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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