L'Éden et après (1970)
Country: FR/CZ
Technical: Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer
Synopsis:
Post-1968 hedonist students, one of whom (Violette) possesses a valuable abstract painting, frequent a bar-café known as the EDEN and there meet a curious foreigner who has travelled in Africa and proceeds to treat the same girl to a dose of 'fear powder'. Thereafter he turns up dead and the painting is stolen, whereupon the whole show moves to Tunisia where similar elements get played out again.
Review:
The director based his first colour film on painterly and twelve-tonal musical concerns, filming in Bratislava and Djerba mainly for budgetary reasons, but also to avoid using the colour green which he disliked. The music on the soundtrack is aleatoric, but the arrangement of narrative and mythic elements is apparently done according to serialism, though this is partly compromised by the unifying (and imposing) thread of Miss Jourdan's performance. It is all shot through with the usual preoccupations of cages, spilt red liquids and naked young women.
Country: FR/CZ
Technical: Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer
Synopsis:
Post-1968 hedonist students, one of whom (Violette) possesses a valuable abstract painting, frequent a bar-café known as the EDEN and there meet a curious foreigner who has travelled in Africa and proceeds to treat the same girl to a dose of 'fear powder'. Thereafter he turns up dead and the painting is stolen, whereupon the whole show moves to Tunisia where similar elements get played out again.
Review:
The director based his first colour film on painterly and twelve-tonal musical concerns, filming in Bratislava and Djerba mainly for budgetary reasons, but also to avoid using the colour green which he disliked. The music on the soundtrack is aleatoric, but the arrangement of narrative and mythic elements is apparently done according to serialism, though this is partly compromised by the unifying (and imposing) thread of Miss Jourdan's performance. It is all shot through with the usual preoccupations of cages, spilt red liquids and naked young women.
Country: FR/CZ
Technical: Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer
Synopsis:
Post-1968 hedonist students, one of whom (Violette) possesses a valuable abstract painting, frequent a bar-café known as the EDEN and there meet a curious foreigner who has travelled in Africa and proceeds to treat the same girl to a dose of 'fear powder'. Thereafter he turns up dead and the painting is stolen, whereupon the whole show moves to Tunisia where similar elements get played out again.
Review:
The director based his first colour film on painterly and twelve-tonal musical concerns, filming in Bratislava and Djerba mainly for budgetary reasons, but also to avoid using the colour green which he disliked. The music on the soundtrack is aleatoric, but the arrangement of narrative and mythic elements is apparently done according to serialism, though this is partly compromised by the unifying (and imposing) thread of Miss Jourdan's performance. It is all shot through with the usual preoccupations of cages, spilt red liquids and naked young women.