#146: Mark talks to director Aleem Khan and composer Chris Roe about their work on the acclaimed British feature 'After Love'
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Mark talks to director Aleem Khan and composer Chris Roe about their work on the acclaimed British feature 'After Love'.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't think that it's time that somebody cared enough to have a dream? |
| 0:04.0 | Why are you getting so upset? |
| 0:09.0 | This is not about you? |
| 0:10.0 | Yes it is. |
| 0:11.0 | You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman. |
| 0:15.4 | At some point you gotta decide for yourself for you. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. |
| 0:22.0 | How do you go about getting an exorcism? |
| 0:24.0 | I beg your pardon. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi this is |
| 0:35.0 | Hi this is Mark Kermo, thanks for downloading this Kermo and on film podcast and I am delighted to say that we are joined by returning |
| 0:39.4 | guest Alan Khan, writer and director of a great feature debut after love and also Chris Rowe, |
| 0:46.5 | composer of the music for After Love. Aline, Chris, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:51.2 | Thank you for having us. Now I asked you both back on now because Aline the last time we spoke it was because after |
| 0:58.9 | Love was playing at the London Film Festival, now it is finally available and in cinemas and I thought it was |
| 1:05.1 | worth revisiting the film to talk about it again and also to talk about your |
| 1:08.5 | relationship with Chris and how the music works. Just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it first let me well let me urge you to go and do so you may |
| 1:16.5 | have read my review in the observer on Sunday the story is essentially Joanna Scanlon plays Mary, who is a white English Muslim who converted many years ago in order to marry Amad, with who she lives near the Dover cliffs. After he dies, she discovers that the work that was taking him back and forth from Dover de Calais was also actually leading him into another life. He had a whole other life going on in France, |
| 1:43.8 | which she knew nothing about. |
| 1:45.9 | And she finds herself cast adrift, |
| 1:47.3 | and therefore she makes the journey to France |
| 1:50.7 | to find out about Ahmed's other life. Now I know that we can say more than that about, you know, what the nature of the plot is, but I think let's, you know, let's be as |
| 2:00.6 | circumspect as possible. Aline, firstly, I've read many interviews with you now since I interviewed you before. |
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