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' After me, the flood ') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "Après nous, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. ' After us, the flood ') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. [1] [2] It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone.
After the Flood is a 2024 British crime mystery thriller series created by Mick Ford and directed by Azhur Saleem. It stars Sophie Rundle as a police officer investigating the death of an unidentified man after a flash flood strikes a small English town. The first series began broadcast on 10 January 2024.
After the Flood (Swedish: Efter floden) is a 1982 novel by the Swedish novelist P. C. Jersild. It was well received as it played into the contemporary fear of nuclear holocaust. P.C. Jersild was an active anti-nuclear campaigner as part of the Nobel Prize–winning NGO, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
3/5 Sophie Rundle stars as a bobby on the beat, trying to track down an unknown hero who saves a baby from rising waters
The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, consisting of the novels Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015). A work of postcolonial literature, the story is set across the Indian Ocean region during the 1830s in the lead-up to the First Opium War.
After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom, June 28, 1997, a live album by Soul Asylum released in 2004; After the Flood, a 2004 album by Clumsy Lovers "After the Flood", a song by Talk Talk from the 1991 album Laughing Stock "After the Flood", a song by Van der Graaf Generator from the 1970 album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced as a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio , James Packer , Brett Ratner , Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran.
A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths , as the flood waters are described as a measure for ...