{"id":12878,"date":"2018-12-22T23:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:48:15","slug":"let-the-corpses-tan-2017-cattet-forzani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12878","title":{"rendered":"Let the Corpses Tan (2017, Cattet &#038; Forzani)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal movies have exciting, memorable, flashy parts, but most of their run-time is composed of the necessary plot and character development.  Cattet and Forzani dispose of all plot and character, creating ninety-minute movies where every single minute is marvelous.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/corpsestan3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This one is their &#8220;western,&#8221; criminals with stolen gold hiding out with locals and hitchhikers and some intruding cops.  If you screenshot whenever someone speaks a character name, and chart the time-of-day intertitles preceding each scene, you can construct a logic puzzle to piece together who&#8217;s who and figure out who betrayed whom at what point &#8211; but if instead you focus on what the filmmakers are emphasizing, the movie is a sensual marvel of bodies and fire and the sound of stretching leather.  Nice to see them get outdoors and work with bright, sunlit colors for once.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/corpsestan2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Elina L\u00f6wensohn (<em>Amateur<\/em> and <em>Nadja<\/em>) is the only actor I might have recognized &#8211; I think it&#8217;s her place where all this is going down.  A writer named Bernier (Marc Barb\u00e9, a marquis in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/552\">Don&#8217;t Touch the Axe<\/a><\/em> &#8211; he must be the guy with the green ring) was staying at her place along with a lawyer who&#8217;s in on the heist.  The three murderous thieves are the bald guy, the grey-haired guy and &#8220;the kid&#8221; (Rhino, Gros and Alex &#8211; possibly in that order).  Returning with the gold they pick up three hitchhikers: the writer&#8217;s wife Melanie, the maid Pia and a child.  One of the two cops gets shot in the face straight away, and the other lasts pretty long.  Not positive who is alive at the end, but it&#8217;s one of the women based on the silhouette.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/corpsestan1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Sicinski on Letterboxd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a subtle but crucial difference between Cattet and Forzani and other Eurotrash revivalists &#8230; The disreputable B pictures offer certain formal possibilities &#8212; jagged edits, dramatic wide angle cinematography, extreme close ups, and an expressionist use of color &#8212; that both commercial and art cinema never really explored any further.  <em>Corpses<\/em> isn&#8217;t an exercise in nostalgia so much as a rejoining in progress, an exploration of those largely untapped potentials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/corpsestan5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/corpsestan4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal movies have exciting, memorable, flashy parts, but most of their run-time is composed of the necessary plot and character development. Cattet and Forzani dispose of all plot and character, creating ninety-minute movies where every single minute is marvelous. This one is their &#8220;western,&#8221; criminals with stolen gold hiding out with locals and hitchhikers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1828,105],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cattet-forzani","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}