‘Love After Love’ Exclusive Teaser: Mourning Becomes Andie MacDowell & Chris O’Dowd In This Evocative Tribeca Drama — Watch

Here’s a little known trick for first time filmmakers to land top talent: Write a meaty part for an older woman. Actresses get offered far fewer scripts as they age, and if yours is good — they might just say yes. Writer/director Russell Harbaugh’s debut feature, “Love After Love,” starring Andie MacDowell and Chris O’Dowd as mother and son in mourning, seems to have done just that.

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Equal parts swelling and intimate, this haunting teaser evokes the searching and stillness of a soul in limbo, adjusting to a new life without a loved one. Eerie and wordless, MacDowell and O’Dowd ignite the screen in close-ups, communicating heartache and rage with the most subtle of expressions. Harbaugh’s images intrigue: He frames O’Dowd behind a french door, or a dinner party in fading light from just outside the room.

Harbaugh’s short film, “Rolling on the Floor Laughing,” played the shorts section of New Directors/New Films in 2012. “Love After Love” also features comedian and impressionist James Adomian (“Comedy Bang! Bang!”).

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