After Sex

Diane has a wonderful job, a loving husband, and two adorable children — all of which she jettisons for the funniest, most agonizing amour fou to come out of French cinema in a long time. Brigitte Roüan (Outremer) exuberantly directs herself as the woman whose passion turns to hysteria after her much younger, very beautiful lover moves on. Her swoony affair and her later torments are limned with precise and all too familiar details of a love gone wrong, very wrong. The film’s sublime resolution completes a story delightfully told. –New York Film Festival