Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Nick NolteLucky Mann
- Julie ChristiePhyllis Hart
- Lara Flynn BoyleMarianne Byron
- Jonny Lee MillerJeffrey Byron III
- Jay UnderwoodDonald Duncan
- Genevieve BissonnetteCassie
- Domini BlytheHelene Pelletier
- Yves CorbeilBernard Ornay
- Michèle-Barbara PelletierIsabel Marino
- France CastelGloria Marino
Recommandations
- 80
L.A. Weekly
It's a first-rate chamber piece for actors, but Julie Christie brings a particularly layered depth to what could have been a very flat role; a combination of bereaved mother and castaway wife. Her torment and her intermittent joys are so fully communicated that they anchor the film. - 80
The New York Times
Even after the film's last half-hour descends into a silly season, Mr. Rudolph writes and directs with obvious affection for his characters and with a deep knowledge of whatever makes them tick. - 80
The A.V. Club
Afterglow gets off to a weak start—and it's occasionally hampered by stilted dialogue and cutesy conceits; Nolte's character is named Lucky Mann—but it is nevertheless a strong, frequently touching film that benefits from a pair of brilliant performances by Nolte and Christie. - 75
ReelViews
While these may not be the most unusual themes to fashion into a motion picture, Rudolph's atypical approach to the characters and their situations makes for an intriguing, if not always pleasant, movie. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mate swapping is so '70s. But Alan Rudolph, who wrote and directed Afterglow, avoids making it seem dated by presenting the menage a quatre as accidental. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The film itself tends to wander as it pokes around uneasily for its tone. Yet this is also, undeniably, the source of much of the film's charm. Afterglow bathes the screen with a warm amber light. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Despite his flair for trenchant dialogue, nicely complemented by Mark Isham's bluesy jazz score, Rudolph whets our appetite but then fails to deliver. The picture limps to its ending and leaves us with nothing to hold onto. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Julie Christie is glorious, and that's most of what you need to know about this slight, loosely structured and self-consciously ironic soap opera in which two couples -- one young and troubled, the other older but hardly wiser -- get themselves into a series of fine messes.
