
Afternoon
2007


“Don't believe the title of this Michael Haneke film.”
431 votes
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Director
Michael HanekeWriter
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Original Language
English
Budget
$13.6M
Revenue
$2.6M
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The now wheelchair-bound industrialist “Georges” (Jean-Louis Tritignant) rather reluctantly approaches his eighty-fifth birthday having contemplated suicide and having largely lost interest in the lives of his daughter “Anne” (Isabelle Huppert) who has been running his business, and surgeon son “Thomas” (Matthieu Kassovitz) who has recently married “Anaïs” (Laura Verlinden) and had a young son to go with “Eve” (Fantine Harduin), his thirteen year old daughter from a first marriage that ended years earlier, but is now immersing “Eve” in a new kind of tragedy. There used to be an adage that the…
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