The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)

	Also Known As: L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (original)
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet (Amer)
	Actors: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener
	Country: F, B, L
	Genre: Thriller, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 16.09.2014, CINEMA theater, MFFF2014
Synopsis: Returning from a business trip, Dan Kristensen (Tange) finds his wife missing, which will lead him to investigate the occupants of his building.
Review: What a dissapointement. I couldn't miss the new movie by the French duo Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet from which I loved the Giallo revival Amer since I saw it at the Espoo Fantasy Film Festival in 2010. I even watched it again some days ago in Bu-ray. I was expecting a new take at the genre with this long-awaited new movie, and even if it still follows the same rules (saturated colors, sexual references, leather, close-up shots...), the storytelling is so disjointed that I got completely lost and stopped caring after 30 minutes. Normally in this kind of movie you see light hints of who the killer is or what is going to happen to the hero and that keeps you very curious, but in The Strange Color... there are so many of those hints that at some point you are not curious anymore. For example when you see blood on the floor it should indicate that the killer is nearby, while we see this scene so often in this movie, followed with nothing, that it doesn't mean anything anymore. I was also completely lost between the "real" scenes and the ones of dream, imagination, flashbacks, flash-forwards... I makes the movie look more like a assembly of experimental shots repeated too many times. There were a few things I liked though: the title and poster, the music and sound effects play a great role like in any Giallo, the look of the "real" scenes is very organic and directly out of the 70's probably thanks to a shooting on film, the apartment in which the main character lives (and the whole building by extension) is quite amazing, in particular the large window in the living room (see some pictures below). And I could recognize the influence of movies like Suspiria for the beginning, La Jetée for the Black&White shots, and of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's work for the bedroom shots. But this doesn't change the fact that I was completely lost during the movie, and suffered while waiting it to end. It pains me to rate it so low. I wish that against the expectations, the directors would have gone for a more linear story rather than more experimental after Amer, which contained for me just the right amount of surrealism.
Rating: 2 /10