A conventional period drama, The Aftermath is pretty to look at, easy to watch, but disappointingly lifeless. Unfortunately, their love affair feels just that predictable, and the more potent issues of guilt, redemption and forgiveness are underdeveloped. You don’t throw two stars as gorgeous as Knightley and Skarsgård into a film together without expecting romance. The answer to that last question is obviously yes. How will they deal with the Germans, the vanquished enemy whose bombing of London killed their young son? Will they repair their marriage, now as chilly as the snowy landscape in which her train arrives? Will she fall into bed with the handsome German widower, Stefan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), an architect whose grand house the British have requisitioned for the Morgans’ use?
The characters in The Aftermath face intriguing dilemmas. Four months after the end of World War Two, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in Hamburg to join her husband, Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British military officer.
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