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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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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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After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Wendy Ide Observer (UK) 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. Rated: 2/5 Oct 10, 2022 Full Review After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Kevin Maher Times (UK) It looks awful (the Manifesto insists on recycled sets) and plays like an overlong, slightly self-indulgent Barbarella remix. Quite the slog. Rated: 2/5 Oct 7, 2022 Full Review After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Cath Clarke Guardian After Blue is a preposterous film, easy to ridicule. But it’s surely already halfway to cult classic status... Rated: 3/5 Oct 4, 2022 Full Review After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Kevin Harley Radio Times 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. Rated: 3/5 Jul 21, 2023 Full Review After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine 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. Rated: 2.5/5 Jan 5, 2023 Full Review After Blue | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Martin Unsworth Starburst 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. Rated: 4/5 Oct 12, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tor L 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. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/06/24 Full Review Bambi T BLARGH! That's 2 hrs and 9 mins of my life I'll never get back. I felt strangely taken advantage of by the time the blessed relief of credits rolled. I'm not even certain as to the reasoning, if any, that brought about this frankly awful movie. Sets and lighting that only an original Star Trek fan would appreciate. Unexplained appearances of ill-conceived and badly executed "monsters" and their lack of pertinence to the non-existent plot serve to further the perplexing execution of a strange western-esque mix of budget sci fi. The dialog made absolutely no sense to me, whatsoever. The plot barely present. Gratuitous nudity and soft porn did nothing to establish nor further a story line. What was the purpose of naming each weapon with a designer name, anyway? Awful. Absurd. Just awful. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/28/23 Full Review Simon B The most bizarre thing I have ever watched. Also, it's rubbish. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review Velero r 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. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/25/23 Full Review david b A bore on all levels. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Valerii Ege D 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! Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/05/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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Bertrand Mandico Director Paula Luna Roxy Elina Löwensohn Zora Vimala Pons Sternberg Agata Buzek Kate Bush Pauline Lorillard Actor
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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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