Characterizing Belgian co-directors\/writers Helene Cattet
\n and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since they’ve only made two
\nfeatures to date. Both “Amer” and “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” are visually overpowering homages to Italian gialli<\/i>
\n from the ’60s and ’70s, seedy crime\/detective stories with a focus on
\npsychological realism and sexual perversion. Cattet and Forzani’s gialli
\n feel more abstract than films by masters like Mario Bava, Dario
\nArgento, and Sergio Martino in that their films are not
\nnarrative-centric. “The Strange Color
\n of Your Body’s Tears,” a mystery about a deranged man’s search for his
\nmissing wife, is largely made up of elliptical flashbacks and dream
\nsequences. It’s a confrontational fever dream film told from constantly
\nshifting perspectives, and a chilly, dizzying trip into a genre defined
\nby violently conflicting emotions.<\/p>\n
In “The Strange Color
\n of Your Body’s Tears,” we initially see the world through the eyes of
\nDan Kristensen (Klaus Tange). He drinks to excess, but only after he
\ndiscovers that his wife Edwige (Ursula Bedena) has disappeared. It’s
\nunclear how he knows this is true given that he’s just gotten home from a
\n business trip. But Dan’s grip on the film’s reality is flimsy at best.
\nEveryone that he meets in his building can suspiciously relate to his
\nplight, including the pushy detective whose wife is also missing, and
\nthe grieving 7th floor neighbor whose husband vanished. These supporting
\n characters aren’t just supporting characters. They’re like Dan in that
\nthey’re united in absence, which makes their bond more than a little
\nuneasy.<\/p>\n
To be perfectly honest, you don’t really learn much about
\n these characters beyond scattered images of mysterious goings-on that
\nhave traumatized them, particularly disembodied body parts: eyes, lips,
\nrears, and uh, other unmentionables. Cattet and Forzani aren’t really
\ninterested in telling a story, but rather relating the texture and
\nsounds of the people and things that haunt Dan’s building, an Art
\nNouveau apartment with bulging walls, lurid stained glass fixtures, and
\nvertigo-inducing stairwells.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Characterizing Belgian co-directors\/writers Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style is tricky since they’ve only made two features to date. Both “Amer” and “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” are visually overpowering homages to Italian gialli from the ’60s and ’70s, seedy crime\/detective stories with a focus on psychological realism and sexual perversion. Cattet and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[47,49,37],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction-movies","tag-mystery","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}