Somewhen in the future when humankind has long abandoned earth and moved to the planet After Blue, where all the men died from excessive hair growth and even the women grow hair on their necks: While fooling around with her friends on the beach young Roxy (Paula Luna) finds a woman, Kate Bush (Agata Buzek) buried in the sand to her neck, to be drowned by the incoming flood. Roxy frees Kate from the sand after she grants her three wishes, and then Kate shoots Roxy's friends, as she claims it was Roxy's first wish to be rid of them. From here on, Roxy and her mother, hairdresser Zora (Elina Löwensohn), are treated as pariahs in their village and are ultimately ordered to track and kill Kate in order to be accepted into the community again, even though they are ill-equipped and not experienced for such a task. On their quest, Roxy and Zora run into many weird creatures, none of them weirder than impulsive and dangerous but also alluring Sternberg (Vimala Pons) and her mild-mannered and blind android Olgar 2 (Michael Erpelding), with whom they spend some time which opens them both up a little. Eventually, Zora pays Sternberg's hunters to kill Kate for her, and it doesn't take them long to return with a body that they've more likely than not just dug up from a grave, but Zora accepts it as Kate and she and Roxy embark on their trip back to their village - only to run into the real Kate Bush ...

Now this is a weird movie, as in a way it's all about world-building, and not really about characters, as even the protagonists remain weirdly elusive. Now this strategy is fascinating but has only limited success: On one hand, the film really succeeds in presenting a very detailed and properly weird world of its own, positioned somewhere between 1980s science fiction trash and trippy 1970s fantasy, with a bit of an over-emphasis on bare female breasts. On the other hand, the film's story never really comes into its own, it's stuck somewhere between pulp science fantasy and allegorical to philosophical experience, with one standing in the way of the other. And on top of that, clocking in at over two hours, it just goes on a bit too long, outstaying its welcome eventually due to a lack of actual narrative structure. That said, the film's still a pretty weird experience, it just falls short of what it could have been.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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