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THREE'S A CROWD.(On the Run)(An Amazing Couple)(After Life)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| February 02, 2004 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Belgian director Lucas Belvaux has made three new films, which

will open, during the coming month, at a rate of one per week. The first is called "On the Run," the second, "An Amazing Couple," and the third, "After Life." Belvaux would prefer each film to stand alone, but these works were raised together, like triplets, and they should be confronted en masse. If you had told Shakespeare that the first and third parts of "Henry VI" totally rocked but that you couldn't be bothered with the second, he would have fingered the fluff below his bottom lip and called you a very whoreson dog. And quite right, too.

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