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After Love
Original Title
Die Blauen Stunden- Director: Marc Jago
- Writer: Marc Jago
- Producer: Simon Baumgartner; Georg Eggenfellner
CGiii Comment
Somewhere amid the darkened underground discotheques and cruisy public bathrooms, a doomed love triangle forms between three lost souls in this stylish noir. Ben is a high-fashion photographer with an existential curiosity that places him amid the fringes of society. He finds himself drawn to Jean, an emotionally distant rentboy, who spends his nights cruising the public toilets for johns. Dangerous complications arise when Jean develops an obsessive attraction to a seductive trans call-girl named June.
To make matters even more tangled, June has a past score to settle with Ben and uses Jean as bait to set the trap. With striking cinematography in high contrast black-and-white and an eerie, haunting electronic score—a style calling to mind David Lynch’s Eraserhead by way of Fassbinder and the French New Wave—director Marc Jago creates a moody and dreamlike world for his characters to inhabit, in this unforgettable and impressive feature film debut.
— Joe Bowman
Trailer...
AFTER LOVE Trailer from Waystone Film on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Sven Dolinsky as Ben;
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht as Jean;
Tanja Petrovsky as June;
Merab Ninidze as Der Maler;
Andreas Patton as Der Bulle;
Michael Welz as Der Beobachter;
Jenny Riemann as Die Redakteurin;
Hermann J. Kogler as Der Freier;
Bela Baptiste as Der Stricher;
Alexander tt Mueller as Der Mann auf der Toilette