<em>The Aftermath </em>Is a Superficial, War-Torn Love Story
James Kent’s period film centers on an affair between a British woman and a former Nazi sympathizer but fails to dig into the moral complexities of their relationship.
The first shot of is a dispassionate view of an aerial attack, a bombing run that blows the city below into smithereens. The city is Hamburg, which was in 1943 and lay in ruins after the end of World War II. But, disfigured by rubble, it could be mistaken for almost anywhere—just one way the director, James Kent, tries to convey the terrible might of the bombardment. When a British woman named Rachael Morgan (played by Keira Knightley)
