After Blue

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After Blue

2022

2h 9m

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed planet, a lonely teenager, Roxy, releases an assassin from the sands she was buried in. As soon as she's free, the criminal sparks death all around. Roxy and her mother Zora are held accountable, banished from their community and forced to track the murderer down. They start a long journey pacing the supranatural territories of their filthy paradise.

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Critics Consensus

Its overwhelming inscrutability may begin to feel more like a bug than a feature for some viewers, but After Blue is nothing if not original.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

10/10/2022

2/5

The production design goes heavy on glitter, crystals and slime, but can’t obscure the fact that the film has little of interest to say.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

10/07/2022

2/5

It looks awful (the Manifesto insists on recycled sets) and plays like an overlong, slightly self-indulgent Barbarella remix. Quite the slog.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

10/04/2022

3/5

After Blue is a preposterous film, easy to ridicule. But it’s surely already halfway to cult classic status...

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Kevin Harley

Radio Times

07/21/2023

3/5

Although the self-satisfied pop-culture in-jokes and diffuse plot can stretch the patience, the throbbing synth score nicely complements the VHS-era visuals.

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Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

01/05/2023

2.5/5

At 129 minutes, After Blue feels longer than this sort of film has any right to be, but it's certainly a singular experience. Beautiful and baffling in equal measure, it was tailor-made for queer film festivals and midnight screenings.

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Martin Unsworth

Starburst

10/12/2022

4/5

Set in a world populated by women only, After Blue - the place and the film - is mesmerising, transgressive, bathed in saturated colours, and will no doubt be something very few people will visit.

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Eric L

@Eric_94 Mar 21

At several moments during this film, I wished I could switch off the English language subtitles, turn down the sound and just enjoy the gorgeous colours and surreal, fever-dream sets. The main characters (the androgynous Roxy, the strangely beautiful woman buried in the sand, the dour mother of Roxy, the pretentious "artist") are nicely varied and convincingly portrayed, but... the constant repetition of "Kate Bush" in the dialogue gets irritating after the first 20 times, the plot is merely incidental and it's a film that - like Victorian children in Britain - should be seen and not heard. Visually it's unique and beautiful. Just forget the words.

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Tor L

@Airflow2TheTurbo 11/06/2024

After Blue is an utterly mesmerising, surreal, psychedelic experience. It's the type of thoroughly original, exquisite filmmaking that we rarely see these days. Those used to standard formulaic Hollywood fare will no doubt hate it. I was absolutely dazzled by it. Suspiria-esque psychedelic colours, stunning cinematography, pulsing 80s synth music, astonishing set design and acting. Cinema as true art is clearly alive and well in France, unlike America. Like nothing I've ever seen before. Highly recommended.

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Simon B

@RT11542635 07/31/2023

The most bizarre thing I have ever watched. Also, it's rubbish.

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Velero r

@Velero 04/25/2023

This low-budget sci-fi western seems to follow the tradition of a certain obscure current of european productions from the late century (see Les Remparts d'écume for example), where oniric surrealism, rusty decadent worlds and candid gratuituous nudity were taken for granted. It is not a film for everyone, and its undeniable flaws (amateurish acting, questionable effects and props, unnecesary nudity) will be too hard to ignore for the majority. But I, for one, enjoyed the ride. In this world of copypasted, uninspired productions, this kind of content makes me retain some faith. Kudos also to the main actress, as she nailed it, in my opinion.

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david b

@Dobishop 10/03/2022

A bore on all levels.

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Valerii Ege D

@RT37895442 09/05/2022

After Blue was one of the dumbest movies, I've ever seen. When the outstanding set design of the movie and its successful editing combined with its ridiculous acting and story, it turned out to be a hilarious movie. Bless you, Kate Bush, stay away!

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Synopsis

In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed planet, a lonely teenager, Roxy, releases an assassin from the sands she was buried in. As soon as she's free, the criminal sparks death all around. Roxy and her mother Zora are held accountable, banished from their community and forced to track the murderer down. They start a long journey pacing the supranatural territories of their filthy paradise.

Director: Bertrand Mandico
Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet
Screenwriter: Bertrand Mandico
Distributor: Altered Innocence
Production Co: Ecce Films, Ha My Productions
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 3, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 2h 9m

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