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Eden and After

Original title: L'Eden et après
  • 19701970
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 33m
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6.4/10
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Eden and After (1970)
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A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
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    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Stars
    • Catherine Jourdan
    • Pierre Zimmer
    • Richard Leduc
    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    • Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Stars
    • Catherine Jourdan
    • Pierre Zimmer
    • Richard Leduc
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    • 14User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Eden and After (1970)
    Catherine Jourdan in Eden and After (1970)
    Sylvain Corthay, Catherine Jourdan, and Richard Leduc in Eden and After (1970)
    Eden and After (1970)
    Catherine Jourdan and Pierre Zimmer in Eden and After (1970)
    Richard Leduc in Eden and After (1970)
    Eden and After (1970)
    Catherine Jourdan in Eden and After (1970)
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    Sylvain Corthay, Catherine Jourdan, and Richard Leduc in Eden and After (1970)
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    Catherine Jourdan
    Catherine Jourdan
    • Violette
    Pierre Zimmer
    Pierre Zimmer
    • Duchemin
    Richard Leduc
    Richard Leduc
    • Marc-Antoine
    Lorraine Rainer
    • Marie-Eve
    Sylvain Corthay
    Sylvain Corthay
    • Jean-Pierre
    Juraj Kukura
    Juraj Kukura
    • Boris
    Jarmila Kolenicová
    • Sonia
    • (as Jarmila Kolenicova)
    Catherine Robbe-Grillet
    Catherine Robbe-Grillet
    • Foolish woman
    Frantisek Gervai
      Ludovít Króner
      Ludovít Króner
      • Franc
      • (as Ludwik Kroner)
      Dusan Jamrich
      Stefánia Minárová
      Peter Opálený
      Marian Sotnik
      Ladislav Ucník
      Eva Luther
      • Violette's look-a-like
      • (uncredited)
      J. Villars
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          • Alain Robbe-Grillet
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        • Trivia
          Italian censorship visa # 57570 delivered on 5 February 1971.
        • Connections
          Edited into N. Took the Dice (1972)

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        4/10
        EDEN AND AFTER (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970) **
        I knew of novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet chiefly by virtue of his script for Alain Resnais’ art-house masterpiece LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961; which I intend to revisit in tribute to the author). Eventually, I became aware of his own films as a director via a thread on “The Latarnia Forums” – which, back then, had intrigued me a great deal and, in fact, was highly pleased to acquire three of them a few months ago. Unfortunately, the prints were incredibly murky – so I kind of lost my enthusiasm and it’s only now, in honor of his passing, that I made a concentrated effort to stick with them!

        However, my first encounter with these titles proved a disappointment: as I said, the picture quality left a lot to be desired – but, frankly, so did the film itself! Judging by the celebrated Resnais work, I knew I’d be in for an oblique and possibly multi-layered piece – however, to be honest, I found it made little sense and that it was generally weird for weirdness’ sake! In fact, if I had to compare Robbe-Grillet’s style here with that of contemporaneous film-makers, I’d say this is Godard meets Antonioni meets Jodorowsky!; that, in itself, would sound like a most interesting proposition to some…but, I assure you, the film is a bit of a bore despite plenty of nudity (the writer-director seems to have a thing for sadomasochism, as can also be seen from TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS [1966]) and a stunning-looking heroine in Catherine Jourdan (sporting cropped blonde hair).

        The plot, such as it is, has to do with a group of disaffected students who are shown a way out of their ennui (via a concoction he offers) by a man they meet at a café (the Eden of the title); Jourdan is supposed to have a night-time tryst with him at a factory but, on arriving for the appointment, she is intimidated by some of her fellow students and finds the man dead! Taking a clue from a postcard of an Arabian town found in the stranger’s pocket, Jourdan gets mixed-up in espionage (the MacGuffin in this case being a valuable missing portrait), games of a sexual nature, drug-induced hallucinations and murder; eventually, we come full circle and the story returns to the Eden and the arrival once again of the stranger...
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          • April 20, 1970 (France)
          • France
          • Czechoslovakia
          • Tunisia
          • French
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          • Bratislava, Slovakia
        • Production companies
          • Como Film
          • Satpec
          • Studio Hraných Filmov Bratislava
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        • 1 hour 33 minutes
          • Mono

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