Drama in which a British woman struggles to settle in postwar Hamburg, where her husband has been posted.
Keira Knightley plays a lonely military wife who falls for a German widower in a tragi-romantic drama set uneasily amid Hamburg’s smouldering ruins.
A delight that could have been much more.
The bones of the story have been played a million times, but a talented and committed cast make this swoonsome rather than samey.
They say history is written by war's victors, but there can be no winners when The Aftermath's conflict is so clumsily assembled.
The film begins as if it is a modern-day equivalent to the neorealist films that Roberto Rossellini made at the end of the war, but quickly turns into an escapist romance.
Keira Knightley’s dress is the star turn in this soapy, awkward tale of infidelity in war-ravaged Hamburg.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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