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Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve vs Cannibals / Blue Paradise / Adam and Eve: The First Love Story
Italy/Spain 1983
produced by Enzo Doria for Alex Film International, Arco Film
directed by Enzo Doria (as Vincent Greene), Luigi Russo (as John Wilder)
starring Mark Gregory, Andrea Goldman, Ángel Alcázar, Costantino Rossi, Pierangelo Pozzato, Vito Fornari, Liliana Gerace, Andrea Aureli, Marco Antonio Andolfi, Maurizio Margutti, Lida Simonetti, Massimo Spattini
story by Luigi Russo, Gisella Longo, screenplay by Domenico Rafele, Lidia Ravera, Jaime Comas Gil, Eugenio Benito, Luigi Russo, Enzo Doria (as Ezio Passadore), music by Guido De Angelis, Maurzizio De Angelis
Adam and Eve
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After Adam (Mark Gregory) climbs out of a larva, he finds himself in
paradise - but all alone. So he builds himself a (very female looking)
mate out of sand, and when the rain washes the sand away, it reveals a
naked female, Eve (Andrea Goldman), and for a time there, paradise is a
true paradise. But Eve gets bored soon, it's the same here day in day out,
no excitement or challenge at all ... so when the snake offers her to have
a bite of an apple, she does so against Adam's warning. Adam is weak
enough to follow her example, and soon enough they have sex and are then
expelled from paradise by some force of nature. Out in the real world,
they discover they are no longer comfortable in the nude, they discover
pterodactyls are some mean sons of bitches but are edible and their wings
make good material for bikini tops, and they discover dissent. So while
Adam wants to go to the sea where all life started, Eve decides to stay
behind, and she's soon captured by some natives (yeah, I know it doesn't
make much sense) but saved by a cro-magnon (Ángel Alcázar) she soon
falls in love with. Adam in the meantime comes to the conclusion searching
for the sea is no fun on his own, but when he wants to return to Eve, he
spots her having sex with her new lover and decides to forget her ... but
then cro-magnon's tribe is attacked by cannibals and Eve and her lover are
captured - but Adam saves the both of them. Adam and cro-magnon soon fight
over who's the alpha male, and when cro-magnon kills a bear and then
defeats Adam in a one-on-one fight, he thinks he has won ... but Eve
decides to stay with Adam anyhow, and cro-magnon lets them be. Adam
impregnates Eve, and then winter comes, and when Adam builds an igloo for
Eve and the ice breaks beneath them ... he finds out he has found the sea,
and they're swimming right on it. In spring, Adam buys fire from a native
in exchange for a few fish, then Eve has her kid in the water ... Adam
and Eve is a weird one indeed, as it does start out as a bible
adaptation, focusing on the story's naughty bits though, then veers off
into your typical stone age fantasy replete with dinosaurs, missing links
and all, and some of the dialogue (Adam and Eve actually talk and not just
grunt) suggests comedy, something that's totally lost on the actors at
least, who play it 100% straight - and really don't show too much talent
at that, either. What remains is a delightful piece of trashy 1980's
weirdness, something that's certainly not a good movie - but good fun at
least, if for all the wrong reasons ...
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