Its movie-ness is baked into its fragile bones. Taken from Rhidian Brook’s 2013 novel, “The Aftermath” began life as a screenplay though it first came to fruition in book form. The role of the vulnerable yet hardy woman oscillating between these admirable men goes to Keira Knightley. The colonel is played by Jason Clarke, coming off a similar portrait in cuckoldry in “Mudbound.” Alexander Skarsgard, a walking advertisement for ‘40s tweed, portrays the cultured ex-architect, a committed anti-Nazi with a troubled teenagedaughter. Destination: the sun-filled attic of the German ex-architect’s mansion, which has been requisitioned by the woman’s English colonel husband, the idealistic man in charge of the de-Nazification of Hamburg’s British occupation zone. Near the banks of the Elbe River, not far from ravaged, bombed-out Hamburg, a grieving Englishwoman and her German host, whose wife died in the war, stroll through a snow-blanketed forest that looks enchanted - fastidiously gorgeous in the patented Ridley Scott manner.
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