‘After Blue’ Film Review: Bertrand Mandico Crafts a Space Western That’s Wild But Tedious

Set in a future, all-female “dirty paradise,” this sci-fi tale turns out to be innovative in theory but unbearable in practice

After Blue
Altered Innocence

In the not-so-distant future, on a planet far, far away, a mother and daughter travel across a hostile landscape with one mission and one mission only: to kill Kate Bush.

Don’t worry, it’s not beloved 1980s singer-songwriter Kate Bush, but a once-dormant evil Polish woman named Katajena Bushovsky now spreading violence and hatred. This is the quest at the center of Bertrand Mandico’s new film “After Blue (Dirty Paradise).”

The film’s title comes from its setting: “After Blue (Dirty Paradise)” is an acid space western set on the planet that comes after Earth (or “Blue,” as they call it), and it is indeed a dirty paradise, though more the former than the latter.

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