Wordiezett So much average

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

volk_stepni They say art is meant to make you feel (and think). If you are going to watch this movie, you will feel.. something. So, there is an art in this movie. But on the other hand, you can take a hammer and hit you fingers with it and you will definitely feel something to. Is this art? Hurting your self with an object? According to some… it is. Just take a look at so called "performances".This movie is just like that. Artsy, self indulged performance. What is wrong with it? Let me quote Robin Skynner & John Cleese (yes, that guy from: Monty Python, Fawlty Tower, A Fished Called Wanda etc.) 2nd book – FAMILIES and how to survive them:John – Interesting. Well I'm not going to try to argue the merits of emotional dependence, because I've been so completely converted to your point of view, that all I seem to observe now is how much unhappiness the idealisation of dependence brings. Just take the Great Love Stories – Romeo and Juliet, La Traviata, Anna Karenina, Carmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Aida, Doctor Zhivago, Tristan and Isolde, Brief Encounter. Mention them to people and a dreamy radiance passes across their face and they say: "Oh, they're wonderful aren't they, so romantic." Well, they are not wonderful. They are tales of almost unmitigated misery. There's not ten minutes of good, everyday happiness and fun in any of them. The lovers usually get one dollop of over-the-top ecstasy and apart from that it's wall-to-wall suffering. They get stabbed, walled up in tombs, they throw themselves and die of consumption or renounce each other in agony. They're convinced they can only find happiness choose on grounds of unavailability. So, Doctor, why do you think all this dependence and its consequent suffering is equated with true love?Robin – Well, after all, the first love we experience, for our mothers, is like that. At the beginning of our lives we are completely dependent, so we do suffer badly if mother isn't there when we need her. And though we'll naturally always need love and support, if we don't grow out of this kind of childish demand we'll go on treating our lovers in the same way, trying to make them care for us like parents and feeling threatened when they don't.John – And this kind of love makes us feel 'special', doesn't it? As babies do, with all that exclusive attention. But really healthy families obviously don't believe that suffering adds significance to their lives.Robin – No. As they're not so needy, they won't need to justify childish demands by suffering terribly when they aren't met. (Page 13-14)Now add to this psychological profile "50 shades of Grey" type of complete misunderstanding what is BDSM all about… you get: After Fall Winter.My proposal: Please, use hammer instead. It's much quicker, it will save you time for the same effect – pain with no meaning (other than faulty misuse of handy tool). And as a matter of fact, there is no blame in it. Even the greatest minds of this planet hit themselves with a hammer, from time to time. You might even get a Newtonian "Eureka!" moment while suffering :)

adyson85 As an avid movie-goer and Eric Schaeffer fan, I knew it would be difficult to go into "After Fall, Winter" without a biased viewpoint. Schaeffer's writing is not only comedic, but still so passionate and provocative at the same time and when I learned he would be reviving the role of Michael Shiver years later, I was really thrilled.But I went into the premiere with an open mind anyway and was truly blown away by the performances and the storyline. While "Fall" tells the story of the sexy, scandalous, yet forbidden romance between Michael and Sarah, "After Fall, Winter" goes down a much darker road, exposing Michael at his most vulnerable stage in life and his journey in the pursuit of love, success, and happiness.Schaeffer and his French leading lady, Lizzie Brochere, were masterful on the screen together. Their interaction was so honest and direct and their dialog wasn't in any way sugarcoated. Schaeffer always has a way of remaining truthful to his audience, revealing that life can be wrapped up in secrets, love, humor, pain, death - a quality of writing that I really appreciate.Overall, an authentic, moving film that will stay with me long after.

shanna-282-519920 After Fall, Winter isn't a perfect movie, but the levels it goes to examine relationships at their most delicate hits home with anyone. Schaeffer has an amazing ability to create three dimensional characters who's flaws and problems feel real. To me that is the best of After Fall, Winter - the characters and world created. We don't have heroes with "first world problems," we have people we have seen in our everyday lives, right up there on the screen. The cast did an amazing job at accomplishing this task. A very impressive character study, I would recommend this film to anyone sick of watching rich people fall in love in NYC and live happily ever after (which I hope is the majority of film lovers).

blueseatredseat There are few films that portray adult relationships in a realistic light, fraught with the complex shades that we who are adults know exist. Not just the black and white. This is one of those films.I loved that this film shows the struggles that exist in all romantic relationships along with the soft and loving parts. The script is deftly written, with extremely natural dialog, both funny and poignant at every turn and those turns happen sometimes on the heels of each other, much like life.We are live in the gray know that life has many shades as do our sexualities, moods, psyches, and I revel in films that have the maturity to discuss that fact.