Xan Brooks from The Guardian says, "Veteran director Yousry Nasrallah makes a melodrama out of a crisis in After The Battle, a film hewn from the headlines of the Egyptian revolution that crash-lands in the Cannes competition on the basis of its urgent topicality, a heart-on-sleeve narrative, and not a whole lot else. Try as I might, I can't see it troubling the judges."

A producer from the Short Film Corner at the 65th Cannes Film Festival said that it was a great film in terms of cultural relevancy. It offers a world view of something that is happening now. Where I am from (the United States), you can't see something like After The Battle. It really is a watershed moment.

Those who were not impressed with the film said that there was no sort of stylistic consistency. The characters as well as the plot were not developed enough to really hook in an audience although the concepts were present.  

posted by Amanda Beals