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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Crime · Drama
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60 votes
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.
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MoHA
September 7, 2015
“eden and after” can be divided into three sections by location: eden, a factory just outside eden and a coastal middle-eastern region which dominates the film’s second half. eden is a combination nightclub, playpen, piet mondrian installation, and house of mirrors. those outside of eden speculate about the hedonism and crime that goes on within, while the jaded sensualists that haunt the place act out the creative r…
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CinemaSerf
May 26, 2024
Yikes, talk about self-indulgent. It does start off quite frighteningly as a girl is ambushed in an office by a group of colleagues and stripped on what looks like a sacrificial table! Then we discover that it's nothing more than a bunch of bored and wired students who have nothing better to do than play their own version of psycho-cleudo. Then they encounter the enigmatic "Duchemin" (Pierre Zimmer) who regales them…
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