Eden and After

Eden and After (1970)

L'Éden et après

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

Date of release
1970-04-20
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (62)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Director
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Casting

Interesting facts

Eden and After is a 1970 French–Czechoslovak drama art film directed by French novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was entered into the main competition of the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.

Production

According to Robbe-Grillet, his imagination lacked colours and he was disinclined to make films in colour. All his films prior to Eden and After had been shot in black-and-white. However, after the commercial underperformance of The Man Who Lies (1968), he considered to quit filmmaking because he felt making films in black-and-white was no longer viable in the industry.

There was no detailed script for Eden and After. Robbe-Grillet created a story using the system Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg used in his version of the twelve-tone technique, constructing the film's plot with ten sets of twelve themes arranged in a different order for each set.

Most of the actors Robbe-Grillet hired for the film were relatively obscure since established actors in general would not work for a film project that had no proper script. The hired actors had been informed very little about the film before the production began, only that it was to be shot in Czechoslovakia and Djerba, a Tunisian island.

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