After the Life
| Après la vie | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lucas Belvaux |
| Written by | Lucas Belvaux |
| Produced by | Diana Elbaum Patrick Sobelman |
| Starring | Gilbert Melki Dominique Blanc Ornella Muti |
| Cinematography | Pierre Milon |
| Edited by | Danielle Anezin |
| Music by | Riccardo del Fra |
| Distributed by | Diaphana Films |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
| Countries | France Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $2.3 million |
| Box office | $1.2 million |
Après la vie (After the Life; also known in UK 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 Un couple épatant, a comedy and Cavale, a thriller.
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.