{"id":9257,"date":"2014-08-31T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:33:19","slug":"the-strange-colour-of-your-bodys-tears-2013-cattet-forzani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9257","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013, Cattet & Forzani)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazing giallo tribute that outdoes any of the originals except maybe the peak<\/a> Argentos<\/a>. Apparently this is what this Belgian filmmaking duo makes – loving, intensely stylized fever-dream giallos – which makes me sorry I skipped their Amer<\/em> a few years ago. Full-color widescreen lunacy with trippy credits, great but too-infrequent music, extreme close-ups, bondage, nudity and lots of knife murders.<\/p>\n

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Danish Klaus Tange returns home from a trip to find his wife missing. They live in a Lords of Salem<\/a><\/em> apartment building full of odd neighbors and evil unopened rooms and hidden passageways above and behind everything, in which first a tenant named Laura and now Klaus’s wife have disappeared. Mysterious bearded guy lives in there and seems to know what’s going on, and Klaus has an Italian police detective on his side. Also there’s a grey-haired old woman who tells a story of when her husband disappeared into the walls, and she might in fact be Laura and\/or the murderer, and I believe Klaus gets killed, but none of this seemed important at the time, even less so afterwards.<\/p>\n

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N. Murray in Dissolve:<\/p>\n

The problem is that Cattet and Forzani have done this before\u2014and with more focus. Strange Color<\/em> gets at the voyeurism of giallo, and how investigating a mystery gives people license to peer into other people’s homes and lives. But the movie as a whole doesn’t say anything about male sexual desire and female sexual power that Amer didn’t already say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

J. Anderson in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n

One reason Forzani and Cattet’s films are so alluring and unnerving is how well they tap into giallo’s fundamental core of irrationality. They invest a new elegance and a renewed vigour into the \u201cscience of plotless shock and dismemberment.\u201d O’Brien intended that phrase to serve as faint praise for Bava and his successor Argento, but it’s also suggestive of the careful manner in which The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears<\/em> induces ever more advanced stages of dread and derangement on the viewer’s part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Amazing giallo tribute that outdoes any of the originals except maybe the peak Argentos. Apparently this is what this Belgian filmmaking duo makes – loving, intensely stylized fever-dream giallos – which makes me sorry I skipped their Amer a few years ago. Full-color widescreen lunacy with trippy credits, great but too-infrequent music, extreme close-ups, bondage, […]<\/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":[1049,911,1828,54],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-belgium","tag-cattet-forzani","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","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=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}