The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

Name: The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 29, 2014
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 53

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 29, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: In Brussels, a man (Klaus Tange) searches for his missing wife.

Director: Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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The Playlist Gabe Toro

Apr 4, 2014

The film is borderline installation-worthy, and would probably work just as well if the scenes were drastically re-arranged. Read full review

Film.com Jordan Hoffman

Mar 8, 2014

Lengthy passages are unrelated to any discernible narrative, and seem to exist in that interzone your mind travels through just before it goes to sleep. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Sep 3, 2014

It’s dazzling, but also excessive; by the end, even those consistently wowed by the directorial showmanship may find themselves feeling that less would have been more. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Mar 8, 2014

The main point of the film remains its style, which is so constantly and loudly reinforced that it’s often hard to concentrate on the story. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 26, 2014

If The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears were Cattet and Forzani’s debut film, this might all feel fresher, and more revelatory. But as visually stunning as any given five minutes of this movie is, it doesn’t add up to much cumulatively. Read full review

Tom Russo

Sep 18, 2014

As tiresome as the relentless, indulgent inscrutability and lack of story momentum can be, it says something for the movie’s visceral power that there isn’t an urge to quit on it. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Mar 8, 2014

When does an exercise in style become a wearying ADD slog through blood-splattered pseudo-Freudian nonsense? When it’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears. Read full review

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LetScar

Jan 28, 2015

I couldn't understand what is going on, is so boring. I was so lost that he could not frighten me.
I liked the striking Photography, only this justifies my note.

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BITESCREEN

Jun 22, 2017

Ein Mann kommt nach Hause, findet seine Wohnungstür verschlossen und seine Frau überhaupt nicht vor. Es folgt die obsessive Suche durch sein wunderschön-verstörendes Brüsseler Jugendstil-Haus, welche die Regisseure Hélène Cattet und Bruno Forzani (Amer) fragmentarisch und völligEin Mann kommt nach Hause, findet seine Wohnungstür verschlossen und seine Frau überhaupt nicht vor. Es folgt die obsessive Suche durch sein wunderschön-verstörendes Brüsseler Jugendstil-Haus, welche die Regisseure Hélène Cattet und Bruno Forzani (Amer) fragmentarisch und völlig handlungsfrei inszenieren. Der Tod weint rote Tränen weiß um seine Giallo-Vorbilder und zieht das komplette Arty-Farty-Register: Die blut- und brustlastige Szenerie steht Kopf, verzerrt, verbiegt und spiegelt sich, ganze Sequenzen verlaufen in schwarzweißen Standbildern. Die Totale gibt es quasi nicht, nur extreme Nahaufnahmen. Das ist manchmal audiovisuell brillant, meist aber schlicht nervtötend. Denn Cattet und Forzani nehmen keinerlei Rücksicht auf den Zuschauer, unterbrechen jede stimmungsvolle Szene abrupt mit grellem Weiß oder einer penetranten Türklingel. Trotz aller Kunst bleibt der Film seltsam gefühllos: Erotik ist nicht erotisch, der Tod nicht erschreckend. Der Tod weint rote Tränen ist ein Film, bei dem wenige gebannt sitzenbleiben – während viele entnervt den Kinosaal verlassen.… Expand

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