The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

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SIMAS C @simas_eros Oct 21, 2026 This is less a film than a highly sensory cinematic experience, drawing on giallo, the Italian genre blending horror, suspense and eroticism. On a big screen and with headphones, it grows even more intense. I confess I have a soft spot for Art Nouveau and chose to watch this movie for the poster alone, but I'm glad I did. The film may not please everyone, but it is undeniably surprising. The sheer work and attention to visual and sound detail outweigh any narrative gaps or even incoherence. In fact, the plot (a man searching for his missing wife) matters least, and rightly so, since too much dialogue would constrain what we feel. Instead, it exalts what Art Nouveau stands for, organic chaos and sensory cacophony that seduce attention and stir the senses. Highly erotic, thriller-toned and making wonderful use of Art Nouveau architecture and graphics, it is one of my cinematic fantasies come true. I am eager to see more from French duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. See more Sep 11, 2021 You know that scene in Tenebre where the camera keeps flying back and forth across the roof of the apartment building that seems to break the film's narrative or the moment in Opera where the bullet explodes out of the hole in the door? Argento is the master of these set pieces yet — for a while at least — he was able to make them work within his plot instead of being style over subtance. For anyone that wanted all the style and very little substance — is it even worth saying that a giallo story makes no sense when that feels like one of the most essential parts of the form — may I recommend the Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer, Let the Corpses Tan) film The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears. If you want a narrative film that tells a story, you will hate this will all your heart. But if you want to go on a kaliedoscopic ride, well, this one has plenty of visual horsepower. If you need a thread to hold on to, Dan (Klaus Tange) is the protagonist, a man who comes home to find his wife missing. His journey to find her takes him through the dwellers in his apartment complex, who all have their own stories to tell. Look, it's a gorgeous movie with a missing woman named Edwige, an awesome poster, an even better title and music from movies like All the Colors of the Dark, Torso, Eyeball, So Sweet…So Perverse, The Black Belly of the Tarantula, Short Night of Glass Dolls, Maddalena and The Violation of Emanuelle. So by all rights, I should love this. It's like watching a supercut of out there moments and feels like it would be perfect to put on at a party where people don't get offended by knives coming out of sexualized wounds (I mean, I've never been to this kind of party, but I figure they exist and people wear paper dresses and Ivan Rassimov shows up looking all sinister). Yet it all kind of leaves me cold. The films of the past that this references, while strange to our American eyes, still had a beating heart. This feels like a cool move from set piece to set piece. And while I can't say that I didn't like it, it's not going to knock The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh or The Fifth Cord out of my blu ray player. See more Aug 22, 2018 This is an odd slice of curio that i really had fun watching. Not exactly coherent but The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears has a rare brand of seductive delirium. It's charm is clearly for a niche audience and it's not the best movie ever but it is a wonderful experience. With a tantalizing blend of hallucination, visceral horror, and aberrant eroticism this movie will spell bind those willing to traverse the darker parts of the rabbit hole. See more Aug 22, 2018 Ultimately less enjoyable to watch that the duo's previous 'Amer' but no less visceral and uncompromising. Strange and beautiful. See more Apr 2, 2017 The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Shudder App, Roku)- 10/10 Im not going to lie, people will either love this or absolutely hate it. It hasnt scored very well on RT and i can kind of see why if your someone who is not familiar with Giallo films in general. The movie is about a man who upon returning home from a business trip finds that his wife is missing. So he ends up searching and talking to other residents in his apartment building to see if anyone has seen her. Part thriller, part mystery, and part horror TSCOYBT's takes you on a wild journey between reality and fantasy in dreamlike sequences never really knowing what is real and what is not. Thus the problem people will have with the film is that the guessing game never really has a definitive conclusion as to what happened with the wife or why. I myself tend to love Giallo films so the mere fact that in 2014 that they could pay this much homage with great execution and flawlessness is astounding to me. The visual effects and usage of color and a 70's Go Go styled soundtrack are superb throughout the flick. The filmography is so exquisite to me that halfway through i really didnt even care about the plot because i was so engrossed with the visual effects. This movie comes across as a mixture of Jacobs Ladder, Suspiria, Antichrist, Eraserhead, and Naked Lunch. While it has a sense of the macabre and some disturbing imagery overall its just a complete mindfuck of a movie. The only real drawback is that it is sub-titled but since most of the movie is visual based there isnt a massive amount of dialogue except when it is needed. This film will cater to those who love cinematic elegance and abstract artistic filmography. While i was somewhat disappointed with the lack of clarity with the ending it doesnt sway me from loving the movie as much as i did. When i get a chance i know i will be purchasing this on video. Even if you are not a thriller/horror fan you will or can appreciate how wonderfully shot this film is. See more Jun 4, 2016 3.4/5 Clearly the work of an artistic enthusiast of film and with of experience-related joy, The Strange Color of your Bodys Tears is unique in its impossibility to differentiate between significance and just plain unclear narrative. See more Read all reviews

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