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The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

2014 · 102 min

A hypnotic, disorienting descent into sensory overload, where every frame is a puzzle and logic dissolves into dreamlike dread.

Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Klaus Tange, Anna D'Annunzio, Jean-Michel Vovk

Overview: Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder.

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Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Klaus Tange, Anna D'Annunzio, Jean-Michel Vovk

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
deception
isolation
memory
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Action	3
Horror	7
Humour	2
Realism	3
Romance	3
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	9
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: horror, thriller
Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Written by: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Starring: Klaus Tange, Anna D'Annunzio, Jean-Michel Vovk, Ursula Bedena, Sam Louwyck, Hans de Munter, Birgit Yew, Elsebeth Steentoft
Cinematography: Manuel Dacosse
Runtime: 102 min
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Languages: Danish, French, Dutch

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