After Fall, Winter (2011)

Director:

Eric Schaeffer

Writer:

Eric Schaeffer (writer)

Release Date:

27 January 2012 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately...

Plot Keywords:

Girl | Leukemia | Dominatrix | Author | Bicycle

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Heather Aitken	...	Patient
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Manuel Bonnet	...	Robert
Lizzie Brocheré	...	Sophie
Anna Gaylor	...	Cecille
Rebecca James	...	Nurse
Jimmy King	...	Thug
Sylvie Loeillet	...	Natalie
Sydney McCann	...	Chloe
Christian Mulot	...	Charles
Akéla Sari	...	Gypsy
Eric Schaeffer	...	Michael
Chloé Stefani
Niseema Theillaud	...	Sophie's Mother
Deborah Twiss	...	Caroline
Matthias Van Khache	...	Antoine

Directed by
Eric Schaeffer

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Eric Schaeffer		writer

Produced by
Bruce Aitken	....	co-producer
Ed Flaherty	....	producer
Edward Flaherty	....	producer
Michele Larue	....	co-producer
Seán Michael	....	co-producer
Zach Miller	....	producer
Eric Schaeffer	....	producer
Deborah Twiss	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Matthew Puckett		(score composer)

Cinematography by
Zoran Veljkovic

Film Editing by
Frank Reynolds

Casting by
Sylvie Brocheré

Makeup Department
Chloé Briand	....	additional makeup artist
Alisonn Fetouaki	....	makeup artist
Pierre Olivier Persin	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Karima Guennouni	....	assistant production manager
H. Spencer Young	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Claire Delâtre	....	second assistant director
Raphael Holt	....	third assistant director
David Villemin	....	first assistant director

Art Department
David Jallier	....	property master

Sound Department
Jérôme Ayasse	....	sound mixer
Chen Harpaz	....	sound re-recording mixer
Chen Harpaz	....	supervising sound editor

Stunts
Philippe Guégan	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Yvain Bois	....	electrician
Nicolas Cagniard	....	steadicam operator
Bruno Dransart	....	grip
Sébastien Greveldinger	....	gaffer
Olivier Kluyskens	....	additional grip
Rémy Pigeard	....	additional electrician
Jean-Michel Pitois	....	additional best boy electric
Sylvia Rodrigues	....	key grip
Hilda Sealy	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Pierrick Boilevin	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Eugénie Poumaillou	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
H. Spencer Young	....	colorist
H. Spencer Young	....	on-line editor

Music Department
Bill Weeden	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Cathie Muller	....	caterer
Saba	....	subtitle supervisor
Chloe Schulberg	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Five Minutes Before the Miracle (presents)
• FilmBuff (presents)
• D3 Pictures (co-producers)
• SARL Miller Stovall

Distributors

• FilmBuff (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
• Horizon Movies (2013) (USA) (all media)
• Kino Lorber (2013) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

132 min

Country:

France

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Company:

Five Minutes Before the Miracle

Movie Connections:

Follows Fall (1997)

I'm Wondering...

If all of the other reviewers on this site watched the same "After Fall, Winter" that I did. All of these stars and all of these gushing reviews feel like deck-stacking on the part of the filmmaker and his friends, and this phenomenon seems to follow Eric Schaeffer wherever he goes. He is like a male Bebe Buell in that regard. This particular group of reviews reeks of this tactic; all of them rave extensively over the movie but reveal no plot points and devote most of their text to praising Mr. Schaeffer.

I rented this movie because I'm a BDSM person, and on that level this picture is profoundly insulting. Without revealing any specific plot points, I will only remark that as a long-term dominatrix, I was deeply offended by the implication that one of my fellow older pros would ever, ever refer a client to a fellow practitioner with whom she felt he would not be safe, no matter how much he begged to be referred to such a person.

Another thing that leads me to suspect that these reviews are ringers is that none of them specifically praise the only person who seemed to be trying to bring this often-implausible script to sincere life - the lead actress, Lizzie Brochere. The only pleasure I was able to derive from this depressing, insulting film occurred when she was on screen. I feel like she really tried to make a decent movie that would be watchable for people other than Eric Schaeffer's friends but was subverted from that end time and time again by Mr. Schaeffer's colossal overestimation of his own ability to arouse sympathy and interest.