The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
Starring: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Rating: 1/5
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani reunite for The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears: their first film since The ABC's of Death.
The movie is playing in the Cult section of the BFI London Film Festival, and is one of the most experimental films on show at the festival.
When Dan Kristensen returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife has disappeared: and yet the apartment was locked from the inside.
When it is revealed to him by an elderly woman on the top floor of his apartment that there is dark force lurking in the walls of the building, he sets off to uncover the truth.
As he sets off on his search, he is plunged into a world of darkness, nightmares and violence, all set within the walls of the apartment building.
I like and admire directors who are willing to push the envelope to see what sort of movie that they can create but, The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears just wasn't for me.
There is no doubt that there is quite a claustrophobic and almost suffocating feel to this movie as the apartment walls to see to shrink in around the central character.
There is a sense of foreboding and doom that hangs over the film, and that really does create a real unease - you know that there really is danger around every corner for the central characters.
But other than that this film just doesn't work for me: other than the fact that a man is searching for his missing wife, there is nothing more in way of a plot.
Cattet and Forzani deliver a collage of disturbing images, and I found them to be a distraction rather than anything of substance to the plot.
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears is a frantic film that really does descend into a bit of a mess. I can understand why some will be swept away with the images and characters that Cattet and Forzani created, but I am not one of them.
The BFI London Film Festival runs 9th - 20th October.
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