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Reflection in a Dead Diamond

2025 · 87 min

A hypnotic, disorienting plunge into a spy's fractured memories, where glamour and violence blur into a fever dream.

Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Starring: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw

Overview: When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

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Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Starring: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 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: memory
obsession
identity
isolation
betrayal
Places: single country house
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Action	6
Horror	4
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	4
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: action, thriller, mystery
Directed by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Written by: Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Starring: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Céline Camara, Kézia Quental, Sylvia Camarda
Cinematography: Manuel Dacosse
Runtime: 87 min
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg
Languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Italian

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