After Fall, Winter
After Fall, Winter is romantic drama movie released in 2011. This
movie is the sequel of the 1997 film Fall, which is made by the same filmmaker.
After Fall, Winter is written and directed by Eric
Schaeffer, same as its prequel, who also stars in the film as a leading actor. The
other major characters of After Fall, Winter are played by Lizzie Brocheré, Manuel Bonnet,
Anna Gaylor,
Akéla Sari
and Sylvie Loeillet.
After Fall, Winter tells the story of a fallen writer, who comes
to France and falls in love with a young woman. Everything was going fine
between them until he learns that his new manuscript has been rejected by every
publisher and then he decides to torture himself by a dominatrix.
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| Eric Schaeffer and Lizzie Brocheré in a scene of After Fall, Winter |
Plot:
After Fall, Winter starts with Sophie, who helps people to take
their death a little easily. But secretly she earns her living as a dominatrix,
who performs BDSM on men for money. She has a good number of clients.
Then we see Michael, who lives in USA and is a fallen writer. Although
he has some of his fames left, but when some publishers reject his latest
manuscript, he becomes frustrated. He also has a few thousand dollars debt. At this
time, one of his friends from Paris invites him to come over, and Michael goes
to Paris.
Soon after reaching Paris, he loses some money by the trap of a
gypsy woman. Then he sees Sophie at a grocery store. He falls for her just then
and tries to talk to Sophie. She gets irritated by him and so pretends that she
does not know English.
Next time, they meet again while renting a bicycle. Although Michael
offers her a lift, but finally she carries him in the front basket of the
bicycle. Sophie doesn’t give him her phone number when he asks. Next time they
meet again at a yoga class. Michael keeps on being persistent. After the second
class, Michael gets success and has a conversation with Sophie at a coffee
shop.
After that, they become
close and start to spend their times together. Michael tries to understand what
is happening around there from Sophie. Before long, they grow a sexual relation
between them. Both of them have little ups and downs in their relations, but
the chemistry between them works pretty well. But when Michael asks Sophie
about her career, she hides that she is a dominatrix. Michael also has a thing
for BDSM, so he takes that service from another dominatrix, about which Sophie
doesn’t know.
All these times, Sophie is trying to help a girl who is going to
die soon by Leukemia. At first, that girl gets irritated by Sophie’s presence,
but then she starts to like Sophie. Sophie takes Michael to that girl and that
girl also likes him. Sophie also takes Michael to her mother’s house in
Christmas.
After returning from Sophie’s mother’s house, Michael calls his
agent and learns that every publisher has rejected his manuscript. He becomes
deeply depressed. To torture himself, he calls his dominatrix for her service. But
she says that she is not working as it is Christmas and she refers another
dominatrix to serve Michael.
Now we all can guess who that another dominatrix is, yes, its
Sophie. But before entering the room, she sees Michael, and then she comes
there wearing a mask. So Michael doesn’t recognize her.
After their session, the two lovers meet at a bridge. There Sophie
says she doesn’t want to carry on the relation with Michael anymore. Michael
lies to her about his BDSM session and Sophie also lies to him for making him
hate her.
After she leaves, Michael becomes more frustrated and visits
another dominatrix who can kill him. Sophie goes to that patient girl. By that
girls words and by finding a letter from Michael, Sophie gets her feeling right
about him and after calling her friend (who referred her to Michael), learns
where Michael is headed. She then runs there to stop him from his suicide.
My review about the movie After Fall, Winter:
I liked the movie After Fall, Winter, but mostly at its end.
The plot of After Fall, Winter was good, specially the ending was
nothing I could guess. But the problem was, most of the other parts of this
movie were boring. It is a long movie (for about 2 hours and 11 minutes) and
most of the times were spent by showing Michael and Sophie talking. There were
some subplots (about the gypsy woman and about the dying girl) but they were
not enough to make After Fall, Winter interesting. Throughout the movie, there
was not much element to keep me interested. This long movie could become much
better if the same story was shown in about one and a half hour, subtracting all
the unnecessary scenes and dialogues from it.
The direction of After Fall, Winter was very good, but I think the
problem was with the screenplay, showing all these boring scenes. The only
interesting part of the After Fall, Winter started from about 20 minutes from
the end. But do not underestimate it. The ending is good enough to make your
heart racing fast, which is not very common specially in a romantic drama
movie. The tragic ending will surely
make you sad.
The acting of Eric Schaeffer and
Lizzie Brocheré in
After Fall, Winter were very good. Both of them matched perfectly with the characters
they were playing. Beautiful Lizzie Brocheré looked stunning in After
Fall, Winter. The dialogues were okay, but sometimes seemed boring. The make
ups, set design and the costume design, the location, the lighting and the
camera effects were also very good in this movie. The music and the soundtrack
at the end were also beautiful.
For several male and female
nudity, don’t watch After Fall, Winter with kids.
So, finally, although I was
bored while watching After Fall, Winter, but I liked this movie for is unusual
ending. For anyone who is not a big fan of romantic dramas, it may be a little
tough to keep watching the first one and a half hours of this film, but if you
can endure that, I can guarantee that the ending will make it worthy. So I’ll
recommend watching After Fall, Winter to all romantic movie lovers. At least,
its worth giving a shot.
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