Review 646: After Love

  

Mary Hussain (Joanna Scanlan) is White English Muslim who converted in order to marry Ahmed who dies. Mary soon discovers that the husband that she thought she knew has a whole other life across the channel that she didn't know about. Mary then travels across the channel to see wether she can find out about this other life.

An intensily quiet drama about who people are, who they say they are and Betrayal; Mary discovers that her partner had a whole other life that she knew nothing about.

The cross-cultural conflcit and reconsiliation becuase of her religion and then she goes to France to find out about her late husband other life.

Aleem Khan (in his directional debut) 

Joanna Scanlan, in a part that doesn't require (or even need) a lot of dialogue, is mesmirising in the role of Mary Hussain  Because she's wearing a hijab and her manner seems subservient, she's mistaken for a cleaning lady by Genevieve who then invites her into her home where Mary becomes a different person.

4.5/5