Eden and After
1970 · Movie · 93 min. · France
A group of disaffected students 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…
Direction Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast Catherine Jourdan · Lorraine Rainer · Sylvain Corthay · Richard Leduc · Pierre Zimmer · Ludovít Króner · Jarmila Kolenicová · Juraj Kukura · Catherine Robbe-Grillet
Soundtrack Michel Fano
Screenplay Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cinematography Igor Luther
Original title L'éden et après
5.9
129 votes (FilmAffinity)
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