The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears

The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
Theatrical release poster
FrenchL'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps
Directed byHélène Cattet
Bruno Forzani
Written by
  • Hélène Cattet
  • Bruno Forzani
Starring
CinematographyManuel Dacosse
Edited byBernard Beets
Production
companies
  • Anonymes Films
  • Tobina Film
  • Epidemic
Distributed by
  • Shellac (France)[1]
  • Numéro Zéro (Belgium)[1]
Release dates
  • 12 August 2013 (2013-08-12) (Locarno Film Festival)
  • 12 March 2014 (2014-03-12) (Belgium, France and Luxembourg)
Running time
102 minutes
Countries
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Luxembourg
Languages
  • French
  • Danish
  • Flemish
Box office$7,182[2]

The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (French: L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps) is a 2013 experimental giallo horror film written and directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. It stars Klaus Tange as a man seeking the whereabouts of his missing wife, only to become entangled in a complicated web of lies and murder.[3]

The film, an international co-production between Belgium, France and Luxembourg, had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on 12 August 2013. It was released theatrically on 12 March 2014 in Belgium, France and Luxembourg.[4] In the United States, it was given a limited theatrical release on 29 August 2014 by Strand Releasing.[5]

Plot

Dan (Klaus Tange) is an average businessman that has returned home to find that his wife has gone missing. He decides to go from apartment to apartment to see if he can find her, but is unsuccessful in finding his wife. Dan does, however, encounter several people that tell him their own stories and secrets.

Cast

  • Klaus Tange as Dan Kristensen
  • Anna D'Annunzio as Barbara
  • Jean-Michel Vovk as the inspector
  • Sam Louwyck
  • Ursula Bedena
  • Joe Koener
  • Birgit Yew
  • Hans De Munter
  • Manon Beuchot
  • Romain Roll
  • Lolita Oosterlynck

Production

The production shot for 44 days between Brussels and Nancy.[6] A few scenes were shot in a studio in Luxembourg.[7]

Reception

Critical reception for The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears was mixed. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 51% based on 47 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Bursting with visual style but suffering from a dearth of discernible narrative, The Strange Color of Your Tears is recommended only for giallo enthusiasts."[8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100, based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9] It received four nominations at the 5th Magritte Awards exclusively in technical categories, winning Best Cinematography.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears" (PDF) (Press release). UniFrance. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  2. ^ "The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  3. ^ Dowd, A.A. (4 September 2014). "The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears tests the limits of stylistic showboating". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  4. ^ "The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Release date and trailer for The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears". JoBlo.com. 14 July 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Pour l'amour du giallo". lejdd.fr (in French). 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  7. ^ Engelen, Aurore (2012-04-11). "Cattet and Forzani start filming L'Etrange Couleur des Larmes de ton Corps". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  8. ^ "The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  9. ^ "The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Magritte: Pluie de nominations pour les Dardenne et Lucas Belvaux". La Libre Belgique (in French). 7 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.