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After Blue

Paradis sale

2021

Bertrand Mandico

Vimala Pons, Elina Löwensohn, Agata Buzek, Claire Duburcq ...

4.8

241

Fantasy. Sci-Fi In a distant future, on a savage planet, the lonely teenager Roxy frees a criminal buried in the sand. Once freed, the woman starts spreading fear and death again. Roxy and her mother Zora are deemed responsible, exiled from their community and sentenced to track down the killer. Thus, they begin roaming the fantastical and spectral territories of their dirty paradise.

	Author	Review
United States	Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"Uneven and patchy as it can be, After Blue remains an exhilarating vision of an Eden gone awry, a portrait of humanity orphaned by a Waiting for Godot-like loneliness."	NEU
United States	Katie Rife rogerebert.com	"'After Blue' might be better off as an art installation than as a narrative film, given that it's more fun to describe than it is to actually watch. But it is ever so fun to describe (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"The film creates a lush — sometimes grotesque — alternate universe ruled by unique rules, creatures, and longings. Love it or hate it, you’ve never seen anything quite like 'After Blue'."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A patience-testing space oddity more rewarding for its images than its weak bounty-hunter plot (...) For those brainwashed into thinking the genre can only be one thing, the experience might open your third eye to other ideas"	NEU
United States	Fran Hoepfner The Wrap	"This sci-fi tale turns out to be innovative in theory but unbearable in practice"	NEG
United States	Leigh Monson AV Club	"It's a film that is functioning on a very specific artistic wavelength that requires one to buy into it completely in order to fully appreciate its delights"	NEU
Canada	Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"'After Blue' comes on like a slow-burning fever, with a meditative abstraction that is likely to test some people's patience, and yet there are rewards for those who succomb to its dream-nightmare that sits at the edge of waking"	POS
Canada	Jon Mendelsohn CBR	"For viewers who don't mind sacrificing a meaningful story just for magnificent set design and worldbuilding, then 'After Blue' is certainly a must-watch"	NEU
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"'After Blue' makes for an arresting hat tip to the surreal, acid sci-fi features of the '70s, but without much substance (...) It's ambitious and gorgeously crafted on a technical level (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle	"I'm certain no other contemporary filmmaker has pushed the inherent eroticism of nature to its most grotesque conclusions, and he has an extraordinary knack for inducing ephemeral states of synesthesia (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"Bertrand Mandico’s trippy, erotic, preposterous odyssey is packed full of deranged details that could propel it to cult classic status (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Muriel Del Don Cineuropa	"After Blue urges us to embark upon a journey (both filmic and human) experimenting with unusual and sensorially powerful visual forms, a universe that’s both poetic and cruel, and which draws our gaze like a black hole."	POS

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