THE AFTERMATH is set in postwar Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira
Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be
reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel
charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for
their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an
unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its
previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled
daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to
passion and betrayal.
The
Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard and Jason
Clarke, is an old-fashioned wartime romance that's neither logically
coherent nor emotionally satisfying.
Consumed by its own chilliness, The Aftermath is an emotionally constipated movie about emotional constipation.