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After Life is a french film of genre Drama directed by Lucas Belvaux with Gilbert Melki
After Life (2003)
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Add to a movie listAprès la vie (English: After the Life; also known as Trilogy: Three) is a 2002 Lucas Belvaux film with his own script. It is the final installment of a series Trilogy, which constitutes a melodrama preceded by Cavale, a thriller and Un couple épatant, a comedy.
Belvaux referred in the DVD commentary that main idea behind Trilogy is that the main characters in a particular story are the secondary characters of others, in such sense the three films happen at the same time and share a series of common scenes and plot points, complementing each other, but also have their own perspective and style. The audience is left with piecing the films together, which Belvaux avoided, since editing the three films into one single narrative would have resulted in a very long film with no style of its own.
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Police Inspector Pascal Manise walks into a bar where he gets morphine from Freddy, a former dealer of Jacquillat, a drug lord. A phone call interrupts the conversation but it is very brief. Manise gives the drugs to his wife Agnès Manise, who has been addicted for 20 years but has never had to buy her own fixes because her husband provides her with them. Agnès tells Manise that her friend Cécile Coste has invited them to a party he does not want to go but concedes when she agrees to buy him a suit. In the meantime the police is looking for Bruno Le Roux, a former leftist revolutionary who has escaped from prison, this means that they have to tail Jeanne Rivet, a colleague of Agnès in the same high school where they work as teachers. In their search for Le Roux they also go to the house of Mme. Guiot, the mother of Jean-Jean, a former associate of Le Roux's, she tells them that he has gone to look for a job out of the city.Actors
Gilbert Melki
(Pascal Manise)
Dominique Blanc
(Agnès Manise)
Ornella Muti
(Cécile Rivet)
Catherine Frot
(Jeanne Coste)
François Morel
(Alain Costes)
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