After Love is a 2020 British drama film written and directed by Aleem Khan in his feature-length directorial debut.
The film stars Joanna Scanlan as widow Mary Hussain discovering her husband's secret family after he dies unexpectedly.
The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Khan's direction and Scanlan's performance.
After looking through Ahmed's wallet some time after his funeral, she notices a picture of a woman named Genevieve (Nathalie Richard) whom she has never heard of before.
Probing further, she looks at Ahmed's phone and sees multiple text messages he sent to the same woman, with the two of them suggestively discussing meeting up with each other.
Suspicious, Mary takes a ferry across the English Channel to Calais to find Genevieve.
Genevieve lives with her son Solomon (Talid Ariss), with whom she appears to be on uneasy terms, and both of them plan to move away in a few days.
The website's consensus reads, "After Love marks an impressively nuanced feature debut for writer-director Aleem Khan -- and a brilliant showcase for Joanna Scanlan's dramatic chops.
"[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".