Athens International Film Festival
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AFTER BLUE / PARADIS SALE

The director of “The Wild Boys” returns as the sadistic all-seeing god of After Blue, a planet inhabited solely by women. There he watches the sensual Odyssey of young Roxy, who along with her mother are forced to hunt in a spectacular Wild West, looking for a wanted murderer by the name of Kate Bush who owes them her life. Building on the post-queer elements of his eccentric filmography, the director launches a sweeping attack on the senses with a hallucinatory journey over a vortex of primal instincts.


FRANCE | 2021 | COLOR | DCP | 127’ | FRENCH, ENGLISH, POLISH

There are directors filming our world and others determining and making their own. Bertrand Mandico belongs with the latter. On a planet of women, Roxy frees unintentionally a buried murderer and is sentenced along with her mother by the community to find her and kill her. It’s one thing to describe the film and another to view it. Because then you have to point to the music videos of the early 80s, Ken Russel and Terry Gilliam, Hammer and a la Corman Poe’s 60s adaptations, Macbeth (!) or the worlds of Kate Bush and Joseph Sternberg (!!!) lending their names to the film’s characters. An exquisite explosion of unique visual and sound atmosphere, a cinema you cannot place, experimental, sensual, dreamy. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Bertrand Mandico
SCREENWRITER: Bertrand Mandico
DoP: Pascale Granel
MUSIC: Pierre Desprats
EDITORS: George Cragg, Laure Saint-Marc
PRINCIPAL CAST: 
Elina Löwensohn, Paula Luna, Vimala Pons, Agata Buzek, Pauline Lorillard, Camille Rutherford

BERTRAND MANDICO
French director born in 1971. He studied filmmaking at Gobelins. Director mostly of short and medium length films, he experiments during each stage of production and has created the Incoherence Manifesto (2012). His debut was voted film of the year by Cahiers du Cinema.

FILMOGRAPHY
2021
After Blue
2017 The Wild Boys



        : Festival Darlings

        A HERO / GHAHREMAN (Opening Film)

        A HERO / GHAHREMAN (Opening Film)

        23/09/2021, 21:00, IDEAL

        DUNE (Closing Film)

        DUNE (Closing Film)

        2/10/2021, 20:30, IDEAL
        2/10/2021, 20:30, DANAOS

        SUBLET

        SUBLET

        23/09/2021, 20:00, AEGLI ZAPPION
        27/09/2021, 22:15, GREEK FILM ARCHIVE

        TITANE

        TITANE

        24/09/2021, 21:00, DANAOS

        PETITE MAMAN

        PETITE MAMAN

        24/09/2021, 22:00, STELLA
        27/09/2021, 22:30, STELLA

        I’M YOUR MAN / ICH BIN DEIN MENSCH

        I’M YOUR MAN / ICH BIN DEIN MENSCH

        25/09/2021, 19:45, AEGLI ZAPPION

        ZERO FUCKS GIVEN / RIEN À FOUTRE

        ZERO FUCKS GIVEN / RIEN À FOUTRE

        THE RUMBLE OF THE WORLD

        THE RUMBLE OF THE WORLD

        THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD / VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE

        THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD / VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE

        25/09/2021, 22:30, DANAOS

        WHERE IS ANNE FRANK

        WHERE IS ANNE FRANK

        26/09/2021, 18:30, MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PIRAEUS
        27/09/2021, 22:45, IDEAL
        04/10/2021, 18:15, IDEAL

        WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY / GŪZEN TO SŌZŌ

        WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY / GŪZEN TO SŌZŌ

        26/09/2021, 19:00, DANAOS

        THE NIGHT BELONGS TO LOVERS / LA NUIT AUX AMANTS

        THE NIGHT BELONGS TO LOVERS / LA NUIT AUX AMANTS

        26/09/2021, 19:45, AEGLI ZAPPION

        LEAVE NO TRACES / ŻEBY NIE BYŁO ŚLADÓW

        LEAVE NO TRACES / ŻEBY NIE BYŁO ŚLADÓW

        26/09/2021, 21:00, MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PIRAEUS
        29/09/2021, 20:30, FLERRY CINEMA

        THE LAST DUEL

        THE LAST DUEL

        26/09/2021, 21:15, IDEAL

        BELLE / RYU TO SOBAKASU NO HIME

        BELLE / RYU TO SOBAKASU NO HIME

        26/09/2021, 22:15, AEGLI ZAPPION
        30/09/2021, 19:45, FLERRY CINEMA

        ALI & AVA

        ALI & AVA

        27/09/2021, 20:00, DANAOS
        29/09/2021, 19:45, AEGLI ZAPPION

        BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN / BABARDEALĂ CU BUCLUC SAU PORNO BALAMUC

        BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN / BABARDEALĂ CU BUCLUC SAU PORNO BALAMUC

        27/09/2021, 20:15, IDEAL

        SWAN SONG

        SWAN SONG

        28/09/2021, 19:30, IDEAL
        2/10/2021, 19:30, FLERRY CINEMA

        RED ROCKET

        RED ROCKET

        28/09/2021, 22:00, IDEAL

        NINJABABY

        NINJABABY

        28/09/2021, 22:15, AEGLI ZAPPION
        3/10/2021, 19:30, FLERRY CINEMA

        THE INNOCENTS / DE USKYLDIGE

        THE INNOCENTS / DE USKYLDIGE

        29/09/2021, 19:30, IDEAL

        EARWIG

        EARWIG

        29/09/2021, 22:15, IDEAL

        NO / NÖ

        NO / NÖ

        30/09/2021, 19:15, DANAOS
        3/10/2021, 19:45, RIVIERA

        MEMORIA

        MEMORIA

        30/09/2021, 21:45, IDEAL

        FABIAN - GOING TO THE DOGS / FABIAN ODER DER GANG VOR DIE HUNDE

        FABIAN - GOING TO THE DOGS / FABIAN ODER DER GANG VOR DIE HUNDE

        1/10/2021, 20:30, DANAOS

        THE DOG WHO WOULDN’T BE QUIET / EL PERRO QUE NO CALLA

        THE DOG WHO WOULDN’T BE QUIET / EL PERRO QUE NO CALLA

        3/10/2021, 20:00, IDEAL

        THE FRENCH DISPATCH

        THE FRENCH DISPATCH

        3/10/2021, 21:00, DANAOS