After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

Name: After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Released: June 3, 2022
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Agata Buzek, Anaïs Thomas, Claïna Clavaron, Claire Duburcq, Elina Löwensohn

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Altered Innocence | Release Date: June 3, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Agata Buzek, Anaïs Thomas, Claïna Clavaron, Claire Duburcq, Elina Löwensohn, Mara Taquin, Michaël Erpelding, Paula Luna, Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons

Summary: In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy (Paula Luna) unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison. Roxy and her mother Zora (Elina Löwensohn) are held accountable, banished from their community, and forced to track down theIn a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy (Paula Luna) unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison. Roxy and her mother Zora (Elina Löwensohn) are held accountable, banished from their community, and forced to track down the murderer named Kate Bush. Haunted by the spirits of her murdered friends, Roxy sets out on a long and strange journey across the supranatural territories of this filthy paradise. The newest vision from Bertand Mandico (The Wild Boys) plays like a lesbian El Topo (in space!) with stunning 35mm in-camera practical effects, otherworldly set pieces, and a dazzling score by Pierre Desprats. [Altered Innocence]… Expand

Director: Bertrand Mandico

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 127 min

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Peter Debruge

Jun 3, 2022

Though its weak bounty-hunter plot makes almost no sense, After Blue satisfies that thirsty spot in our psyche too few films succeed in tickling, where dreams are born, hormones churn and logic simply doesn’t apply. Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

Oct 7, 2021

A kaleidoscopic fantasy warped through the lens of a 1970s sci-fi Western, After Blue is a synthetic siren song for the freaks of the future and the past. Read full review

Screen Rant Ferdosa Abdi

Jun 10, 2022

To enjoy After Blue, one should be open to an experience that overtakes the senses. Despite the long runtime, it offers a wholly unique experience. Read full review

Leigh Monson

Jun 1, 2022

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. Whether that specific frequency is too obtuse for all but the most hardcore enthusiasts for ’70s sci-fi is up for debate, but the curious would best be served to experience this strange new world for themselves. Read full review

Saffron Maeve

Jun 16, 2022

To its credit, After Blue is very easy on the eyes, reminiscent of the kitschy, saturated pulp mags Mandico is clearly borrowing from. But its illusory schtick is better suited for a short film, rather than being taffy-pulled into a feature with so many sugary gaps in logic and feeling. You’re better off taking an edible and pressing play on Hounds of Love. Read full review

Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jun 2, 2022

It’s unclear what Mandico is trying to say, if anything, and the film overstays its welcome — even the wildest visuals lose their power to stun after a while — but “After Blue” certainly is sui generis. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 1, 2022

The pointlessness is the point, and there’s zero entertainment value in that, no matter how many critics throw up their hands and use “fever dream” as a reason to cop out, give it a thumb’s up, and move on. Read full review

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