After Love Director Aleem Khan on His Debut Film, Faith and Sexuality

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Aleem Khan opens up to mrnicklevine about his deeply moving debut film, which centres on one woman’s journey of discovery following the death of her husband

never strikes a false note. For this reason, it’s also beautifully human and deeply moving. Soon after losing her husband Ahmed, Dover-based Mary Hussain discovers a hidden mobile phone containing messages from another woman in France. With total shock compounding her unprocessed grief, Mary makes the 30-mile across the English Channel to Calais, where she finds that her ferry captain husband had a longtime mistress, Genevieve , and a teenage son called Solomon .

Khan’s fundamental aim was to make a film about the importance – and potential fragility – of our identities. “I guess I wanted to ask the question: ‘What is left of ourselves when the people we construct our identities around leave us or maybe even betray us? When that happens, what do we see staring back at us when we look in the mirror?’” he says.

Initially, Mary and Genevieve seem to be very different people. The Englishwoman converted to Islam for Ahmed and became his wife, whereas the Frenchwoman was given no such option; she knew Ahmed was married and wouldn’t contemplate divorce, so she was destined to remain his mistress. Genevieve has raised a teenage son with Ahmed – a son who doesn’t know about his father’s other life – while Mary suffered the trauma of losing her only child at a young age.

 

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