12/03/2014 - A mix of pictorial symphony and erotic-gore fantasy, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears establishes the Cattet-Forzani duo in the rare category of purely sensual cinema

Returning from his travels, a man finds the door of his empty apartment locked from the inside. His wife has disappeared, and his neighbours are uncooperative when it comes to shedding light on the matter… A tribute to the Italian thrillers of the 70s, but also to the majestic Art Nouveau architecture of many buildings in Brussels, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears [+see also:
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However, as if by an aesthetic miracle, the viewer remains stuck to his seat, a willing victim of the characters’ sadism, and a guinea pig glad of this highly sensory experience. Although the term film experience is often overused, sometimes as a shabby excuse for an utter lack of narrative coherence, it takes on its full meaning here. The story progresses through the association of ideas, an image leading to another, a sound summoning another, punctuated by a few haunting and recurrent notes borrowed from Black Emanuelle. It should be noted that the film is very likely to win the 2014 Best Film of the Year.

The film, produced by Anonymes Films, Tobina Films, Epidemic and Red Lion, has received the support of the CCA, the VAF, the Luxembourg Film Fund and the CNC. It is distributed in Belgium by Numéro Zéro, a newcomer to Belgian distribution. After opening the slapstick Off Screen festival last week, the film will be showing in Brussels and Liege, as well as Ghent.

(Translated from French)