The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (DVD REVIEW)
The
Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Paris
Flat Serves as Setting for Surreal Erotic Thriller
Dan Kristensen (Klaus Tange)
could find no sign of his wife Edwige (Ursula Bedena) when he returned home
from a business trip. Moreover, the communications executive’s suspicions were
aroused by the fact that the chain was across the door when he unlocked their
apartment, suggesting that someone ought to be inside.
Inquiring of neighbors only served
to compound the mystery, between his landlord who suggested that his wife had a
reason to disappear, and the provocatively-dressed elderly senior who tries to
seduce him after saying that her husband had disappeared, too. As he makes his
way around the building, Dan gradually discovers that the place is a den of
iniquity where people participate in all sorts of bizarre sexuality.
With each flat he enters, the
sadomasochistic displays revealed are increasingly kinky, eventually even
rising to the level of a bloodbath replete with decapitation. Co-directed by
Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears is not
so much a mystery with a linear plotline as a surreal thriller designed for
cinephiles with a taste for abstraction and eroticized violence.
Undeniably
artistic, yet gruesome and harrowing, this atmospheric adventure has a dark,
ominous air about it which keeps you braced for something bad for the duration
of the entire endurance test. A difficult to decipher whodunit guaranteed to have you still scratching your head even after its
confounding resolution.
Good (2 stars)
Unrated
In
French, Danish and Flemish with subtitles
Running
time: 102 minutes
Distributor:
Strand Releasing
DVD
Extras: Original theatrical trailer and other Strand Releasing trailers.
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