Directors: Héléne Cattet, Bruno Forzani.
Starring: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener
Running Time: 102 minutes.
Certificate: 18.
Synopsis: Following a business trip Dan (Klaus Tange) returns to find his apartment locked from the inside but his wife missing. As he investigates, he is taken into a world he could never imagine.
Where do you start with a film designed to illicit a reaction, but the only one it manages is boredom? Well, the first place to start is with the bloated 102 minute running time which ensures the ‘plot’ is stretched beyond breaking point somewhere around the 30 minute mark.
Secondly, let’s examine the visuals. Directing duo Cattet and Forzani clearly know how to use a camera and edit. Sadly they don’t know where to draw the line. On countless occasions, the audience is shown a female nipple being flicked with a blade, a knife being plunged in, out, or through someone’s eye, mouth or any other orifice, and not once does it make any sense.
The narrative – if it can be called that – is a convoluted mess attempting to be clever in trying to unravel the mystery of Dan’s missing wife. It only succeeds in unravelling itself in an absurd section involving a visit from a Police Detective.
THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS has a silly title, a silly structure and a completely stupid feel. It is the kind of pretension that David Lynch would bulk; it has visuals that make the end of 2001 look lucid, and above all it is bloody awful and will make you feel dirty – and not in the good way.
A horrible, depressing experience… I’m off for a shower.
THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS is showing in the CULT section on Friday 11th (8:45pm), Sunday 13th (8:45pm) and Sunday 20th October (8:45pm). Check out the rest of our coverage from LFF here.
