Amazingly detailed emotions, characters, directing, and acting. Andie McDowell is so great in this.

For all the outstanding performances, the movie is not successful as a whole. It is like the audience is privy to a compilation of all the awkward private moments in a Family's grieving process. it's a reflection of life and truth, certainly, but do we really want to be there? I wouldn't call the ending scene artsy or subtle--just tasteless--for anyone who has lost a loved one.

The film is a bit messy at times, but considering the circumstances on screen, that seems appropriate.

The story of Love After Love is one of grieving, and it's about that process in a specific, particularly sad sort of way.

It's a film intentionally adrift, rambling between a loose succession of family gatherings and dinner parties with subdued style, the camera feeling like just another person at the edge of the room.

An unflinching portrait of how grief can unravel a tightknit family in ways both banal and heart-wrenching.

Challenging, unflinching and deeply honest.

Andie MacDowell [displays] one of the best performances of her career.

First-time director Russell Harbaugh presents grief as it is, in all its pain and ugliness, rather than using the convenient, uplifting short-hand that Hollywood prefers.

I found it a great masochistic experience.

The three leads are particularly strong, with MacDowell getting a rare, meaty role.

This first-time feature from writer/director Russell Harbaugh has an understated, intimate, pointillist style, with a cool jazz score that matches its improvisational tone.

Central to the film's vision of love and loss is a certain realism marked by unshowy performances, un-stagy mise-en-scène, and eye-level, frequently handheld camerawork.

Writer-director Russell Harbaugh's Love After Love is a remarkably cool-headed, composed piece of work.

Intimate, brittle tale of a family quietly spinning apart after the death of the patriarch.