Fantastic Fest 2021: "After Blue (Dirty Paradise)" Is One Strange Plains Drifter
French visionary Bertrand Mandico creates a queer ode to Kate Bush with his sophomore feature, After Blue (Dirty Paradise), which recently had its U.S. premiere at Austin, Texas’ Fantastic Fest. This esoteric sapphic-surrealist sci-fi acid western reaffirms Mandico’s penchant for conceiving highly imaginative fantastic worlds, but it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. The film is a frequency, and you’re either on it or you’re not.
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