Light Thereafter

Light Thereafter is a 2017 Bulgarian drama film directed by Konstantin Bojanov starring Barry Keoghan as Pavel, a lonely teenager who is obsessed with the French painter Arnaud.

Premise
Lonely autistic teenager Pavel (Keoghan) travels from London, where he lives with his mother, to France in hopes of meeting Arnaud (Bodnia), a famous French painter. Along the way, he crosses paths with a number of unusual figures including his aunt (Sichov) and Julie (Rigot), a hitchhiker. His ultimate encounter and apprenticeship with Arnaud does not match Pavel's expectation's due to the painter's exacting discipline.

Cast

 * Barry Keoghan as Pavel
 * Kim Bodnia as Arnaud
 * Thure Lindhardt as Piri
 * Lubna Azabal as Soumaya
 * Solène Rigot as Julie
 * Slimane Dazi as Driver
 * Catherine Salee as Julie's mother
 * Alexis Julemont as Nicholas
 * Lucie Debay as Lola
 * Margita Gosheva as Miglena
 * Dounia Sichov as Eva
 * Elitsa Mateva as Nikki
 * Sanislava Nikolova as Nuri
 * Frederic Etherlink as Conrad
 * Alain Bellot as Julie's father
 * Fanny Toneur as Nicholas' wife
 * Ersin Mustafov as Javier
 * John Kinory as Mayfair passerby

Release
Light Thereafter premiered at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Critical reception
Jonathan Romney of Screendaily characterized Light Thereafter as "clunkily written" with a "very male" approach to sexuality but praised Barry Keoghan's performance.