The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) (Blu-ray Review)
Directed By: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Starring: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener
Rated: UR/Region A/Widescreen/1080p/Number of Discs 1
Where to get it: Strand Releasing
From directing duo Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (AMER), comes this homage to the masters of classic Italian Giallo horror. Dan returns home to find his wife is missing. With no signs of struggle or break-in and with no help from the police, Dan’s search for answers leads him down a psychosexual rabbit hole. THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS is a bloody and taut fantasia of suspense that leaves the viewer entranced in this highly original erotic thriller.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani dazzled all of us with their film, Amer. I had never seen anything like it before and the new film from the two, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, dazzles us again and is also unlike anything we have seen before. It is visual cinema on crack. It’s live action acid that unlike most films that you could describe in such a ways actually packs a point. Yes, this is an oddball story. It packs many a twist and turn along the way, as it often takes us in all sorts of directions, but things have a point, things add up, and at the end of the day we have a visually stunning strange tale that will make it nearly impossible for you to turn away. Making things better is the fact that in the center of all the madness is a story that is a mystery at heart. Someone is gone and we need to see how and why and watching makes it seem to us as desperate as it does our lead. Stanley Kubrick would be proud of something like this, but we also have enough on the horror end to make any Italian horror lover happy. And extremely happy if you can appreciate the visual nature of this movie.
So we have a great story that also packs some of the best cinematography you will see on screen. The music to the cast all click in an all out mind trip that makes very good use of camera angles and colors, just like Amer did. If you’ve seen that and loved it, then you will love this without questions. If you were iffy on that, then you might not find this to be your cup of tea. I loved it and I think the Blu-ray is clearly the best way for people to see it, due to the fact that it brings you the full scale of what a film like this has to offer up. The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears is a very weird and strange ride, but it is also an extremely clever one that gets you were you need to be by the time it wraps up. I think I’d be safe to say that we might have easily one of the year’s best on our hands with this one. If you love stuff that just feels news and fresh, then by all means pick this one up.
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