Italian sales company True Colours has acquired worldwide rights to Reflection In A Dead Diamond from cult genre film directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.
The fourth feature from the Brussels-based duo is an homage to 1960s Euro-spy stories, set in the glamorous, decadent backdrop of the Côte d’Azur. Filming wrapped in December and the film is now in post-production.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond centres on a retired spy who fears his former enemies are back for a final fight when his intriguing next-door neighbour mysteriously disappears.
Known for their unique visual style, Cattet and Forzani’s films blend action,...
The fourth feature from the Brussels-based duo is an homage to 1960s Euro-spy stories, set in the glamorous, decadent backdrop of the Côte d’Azur. Filming wrapped in December and the film is now in post-production.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond centres on a retired spy who fears his former enemies are back for a final fight when his intriguing next-door neighbour mysteriously disappears.
Known for their unique visual style, Cattet and Forzani’s films blend action,...
- 5/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Arrow Video have released Mario Bava’s Blood And Black Lace on Limited Edition Uhd, Limited Edition Blu-ray and Limited Edition Uhd with Arte Originale.
We have more details of these releases below.
Blood And Black Lace – Limited Edition Uhd
The Christian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models… and backstabbing… and blackmail… and drug deals… and Murder.
Having established a template for the giallo with The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava set about cementing its rules with Blood and Black Lace. In doing so, he created one of the most influential films ever made – an Italian classic that would spearhead the giallo genre, provide a prototype for the slasher movie, and have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese.
Newly restored from the original camera negative and presented here in its original uncut form, this all-new 4K Ultra HD...
We have more details of these releases below.
Blood And Black Lace – Limited Edition Uhd
The Christian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models… and backstabbing… and blackmail… and drug deals… and Murder.
Having established a template for the giallo with The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava set about cementing its rules with Blood and Black Lace. In doing so, he created one of the most influential films ever made – an Italian classic that would spearhead the giallo genre, provide a prototype for the slasher movie, and have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese.
Newly restored from the original camera negative and presented here in its original uncut form, this all-new 4K Ultra HD...
- 10/4/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Karim Amer has made documentaries about seismic geopolitical events as they unfolded before. In the Oscar-nominated documentary The Square — which he produced — footage of the chaos and carnage in Cairo’s Tahrir Square helped offer an uniquely immersive account of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
But nothing he’d made previously compares to Defiant, premiering in Toronto on Sep. 9 and capturing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the unique perspective of key decision makers in Kiev — including minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba — politicians suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into a wartime government.
“The stakes are so high, because it’s the largest conflict we’ve seen since WWII and anything could happen,” says Amer, who swapped his producer hat for director, teaming up with longtime producer Mike Lerner (The Square, Hell and Back Again) and Odessa Rae, a newly-minted Oscar-winner for Navalny.
Access is absolute key for a film like Defiant,...
But nothing he’d made previously compares to Defiant, premiering in Toronto on Sep. 9 and capturing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the unique perspective of key decision makers in Kiev — including minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba — politicians suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into a wartime government.
“The stakes are so high, because it’s the largest conflict we’ve seen since WWII and anything could happen,” says Amer, who swapped his producer hat for director, teaming up with longtime producer Mike Lerner (The Square, Hell and Back Again) and Odessa Rae, a newly-minted Oscar-winner for Navalny.
Access is absolute key for a film like Defiant,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New films from legendary documentarians Frederick Wiseman and Errol Morris and new work from directors Raoul Peck, Lucy Walker, Roger Ross Williams and Karim Amer will screen at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, which announced its TIFF Docs lineup on Wednesday.
The 93-year-old Wiseman will present the North American premiere of “Menus – Plaisirs Les Troisgros,” a four-hour deep dive into a fabled Michelin-starred restaurant in France. Morris will have the international premiere of “The Pigeon Tunnel,” which is built around a Morris interview with John le Carre that turned out to be the last interview the espionage novelist gave before his death in 2020.
The 22 films announced on Wednesday include 10 world premieres, including Amer’s “Defiant,” Walker’s “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road,” Williams’ “Stamped From the Beginning” and Caroline Suh and Cara Mones’ “Sorry/Not Sorry.” Of the 26 directors represented by those films,...
The 93-year-old Wiseman will present the North American premiere of “Menus – Plaisirs Les Troisgros,” a four-hour deep dive into a fabled Michelin-starred restaurant in France. Morris will have the international premiere of “The Pigeon Tunnel,” which is built around a Morris interview with John le Carre that turned out to be the last interview the espionage novelist gave before his death in 2020.
The 22 films announced on Wednesday include 10 world premieres, including Amer’s “Defiant,” Walker’s “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road,” Williams’ “Stamped From the Beginning” and Caroline Suh and Cara Mones’ “Sorry/Not Sorry.” Of the 26 directors represented by those films,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Grimmfest, Manchester UK’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, joins Méliès International Festivals Federation.
Regular attendees that look forward to catching up with the annual selection of short film premieres at Grimmfest, will be pleased to hear that this year, Grimmfest will be hosting three short film programmes across the festival period (6th-8th October 2023), in celebration of their new membership of the Méliès International Festivals Federation.
The Federation, recently held their annual general assembly at Cannes film festival, and the 26 member festivals voted for Grimmfest to join, and thus become the only English festival of fantastic film in the Federation.
Each year member festivals vote for their best ‘Fantastic’ feature film and short film, with an award for each, presented at Sitges. Previous winners have included Alex Garland’s Men, Prano Baily-Bond’s Censor, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Lars Von Trier...
Regular attendees that look forward to catching up with the annual selection of short film premieres at Grimmfest, will be pleased to hear that this year, Grimmfest will be hosting three short film programmes across the festival period (6th-8th October 2023), in celebration of their new membership of the Méliès International Festivals Federation.
The Federation, recently held their annual general assembly at Cannes film festival, and the 26 member festivals voted for Grimmfest to join, and thus become the only English festival of fantastic film in the Federation.
Each year member festivals vote for their best ‘Fantastic’ feature film and short film, with an award for each, presented at Sitges. Previous winners have included Alex Garland’s Men, Prano Baily-Bond’s Censor, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Lars Von Trier...
- 6/16/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Mo Amer, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded via Zoom in front of students at Chapman University, is a Kuwait-born Palestinian standup comedian, writer, producer and actor. His semi-autobiographical rookie comedy series Mo — which was produced by A24 and streamed by Netflix, which he co-created with Ramy Youssef, for which he wrote the pilot and on which he stars — is the first ever Palestinian-American sitcom, and is currently generating Emmy buzz.
The New Yorker has described Mo’s depiction of an undocumented immigrant’s life in Houston as “delivered with a warmth, confidence, and localism that evokes Spike Lee’s Brooklyn, E-40’s Bay Area or the Philadelphia that Sylvester Stallone memorialized in Rocky.” Since the show first dropped last August 24, it has accumulated rave reviews leading to a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, fans like Steven Spielberg and widespread...
The New Yorker has described Mo’s depiction of an undocumented immigrant’s life in Houston as “delivered with a warmth, confidence, and localism that evokes Spike Lee’s Brooklyn, E-40’s Bay Area or the Philadelphia that Sylvester Stallone memorialized in Rocky.” Since the show first dropped last August 24, it has accumulated rave reviews leading to a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, fans like Steven Spielberg and widespread...
- 5/24/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In late February 2022, the cast of Netflix’s roaring historical drama, The Last Kingdom,were in icy Budapest. They were filming the final scenes of the franchise’s movie spinoff, Seven Kings Must Die. It was also the month that Putin’s Russian army invaded Ukraine, around 700 miles east of Hungary’s capital. “There are no words for a situation like that,” says Alexander Dreymon, the 40-year-old German star and producer of Seven Kings, as he recounts the influx of refugees that came through the Budapest train station. “You know, a lot of Hungarian families opened their doors to Ukrainians.” He recalls how he and his castmates lent a hand by shuttling Ukrainians to Hungarian homes. “We met a lot of people who had fled Ukraine,” he says, solemnly. “It was very moving. We would go to the train station to see if people needed rides. It’s heartbreaking. And...
- 4/12/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
Exclusive: Stand-up comedian Mo Amer is the latest to join Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam posse for New Line/DC.
Details of his role are being kept secret, but he joins an ever-growing cast that includes Johnson in the title role, Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate, Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher and Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, with Marwan Kenzari, James Cusati-Moyer and Bodhi Sabongui rounding out the cast.
Amer is known for his Netflix comedy special Mo Amer: The Vagabond and the award-winning Hulu sitcom Ramy on which the comedian stars as Ramy Youssef’s Muslim cousin Mo, who owns a diner. Amer is one-third of the comedy troupe Allah Made Me Funny. He appears in the upcoming comedy film Americanish.
Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney’s upcoming July 30 theatrical release Jungle Cruise, is directing Black Adam. Johnson, Dany Garcia...
Details of his role are being kept secret, but he joins an ever-growing cast that includes Johnson in the title role, Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate, Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher and Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, with Marwan Kenzari, James Cusati-Moyer and Bodhi Sabongui rounding out the cast.
Amer is known for his Netflix comedy special Mo Amer: The Vagabond and the award-winning Hulu sitcom Ramy on which the comedian stars as Ramy Youssef’s Muslim cousin Mo, who owns a diner. Amer is one-third of the comedy troupe Allah Made Me Funny. He appears in the upcoming comedy film Americanish.
Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney’s upcoming July 30 theatrical release Jungle Cruise, is directing Black Adam. Johnson, Dany Garcia...
- 4/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
After posting big numbers in the Live+Same Day TV ratings, ABC’s “The Little Mermaid Live” has emerged at the top of the charts for the week it aired after three days of delayed viewing.
The live musical, which featured Auliʻi Cravalho in the titular role and a powerhouse performance from Queen Latifah as the evil Ursula, grew 26% from a 2.6 rating to a 3.2 in Live+3. It managed to hold off “The Masked Singer” on Fox and “This Is Us” on NBC, which grew to a 2.8 and a 2.4 respectively.
It will be interesting to see whether “The Little Mermaid” can carry home the trident after seven days of delayed viewing, given that live TV typically grows less than non-live.
In terms of total viewership, the special came second in L+Sd behind “NCIS,” but after three days of delayed viewing it managed just under 11 million total viewers and was overtaken...
The live musical, which featured Auliʻi Cravalho in the titular role and a powerhouse performance from Queen Latifah as the evil Ursula, grew 26% from a 2.6 rating to a 3.2 in Live+3. It managed to hold off “The Masked Singer” on Fox and “This Is Us” on NBC, which grew to a 2.8 and a 2.4 respectively.
It will be interesting to see whether “The Little Mermaid” can carry home the trident after seven days of delayed viewing, given that live TV typically grows less than non-live.
In terms of total viewership, the special came second in L+Sd behind “NCIS,” but after three days of delayed viewing it managed just under 11 million total viewers and was overtaken...
- 11/15/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Let the Corpses Tan is a film about sensations, derived more so from the mechanics of filmmaking than from storytelling. Like their previous works, it exists as a standalone genre film in the classic European mold, even when divorced from its stylistic trappings, with sunshine and gunfire supplanting dark corridors and unsheathed daggers. In the last ten years, the reception of Cattet and Forzani has come to understand theirs as a tactile cinema: What happens onscreen is never quite as important as how it looks and sounds—or perhaps, how it ‘feels’—while it’s happening. While Corpses is certainly exploitation cinema formally in its emulation of European westerns and gangster films, it is also exploitation cinema by design in its manipulation and abstraction of photography and sound.As with their two previous features Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears...
- 8/31/2018
- MUBI
French directing duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani burst onto the genre scene with their mesmerizing, impeccably crafted 2009 giallo film Amer. The married couple followed it up with the even more daring spiritual sequel The Strange Colour of Your Bodies Tears. Now, Cattet and Forzani are back and bringing their talent for precision filmmaking into other genres. In Let the Corpses Tan, based on the book Laissez bronzer les cadavres by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid, thieves steal a pile of gold and getaway to a coastal village, the home of Luce, an enigmatic artist involved in a seedy, […]...
- 8/31/2018
- by Corey Atad
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
French directing duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani burst onto the genre scene with their mesmerizing, impeccably crafted 2009 giallo film Amer. The married couple followed it up with the even more daring spiritual sequel The Strange Colour of Your Bodies Tears. Now, Cattet and Forzani are back and bringing their talent for precision filmmaking into other genres. In Let the Corpses Tan, based on the book Laissez bronzer les cadavres by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid, thieves steal a pile of gold and getaway to a coastal village, the home of Luce, an enigmatic artist involved in a seedy, […]...
- 8/31/2018
- by Corey Atad
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and creeping shadows of their giallo-worshiping first two films for blistering sun, creaking leather and raining bullets in Let The Corpses Tan, a glorious homage to 1970s Italian crime films.
After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses and dripping with blood.
Based on a classic pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and featuring music by Ennio Morricone, Let the Corpses Tan is a deliriously stylish, cinematic fever dream that will...
After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses and dripping with blood.
Based on a classic pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and featuring music by Ennio Morricone, Let the Corpses Tan is a deliriously stylish, cinematic fever dream that will...
- 6/7/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Homage has dominated (some may argue, plagued) the horror market in recent years, from the retro ’80s to the luxurious ’60s, we’ve seen several eras recreated on screen to varying degrees of success. Rather than simply imitate, some filmmakers have inverted, distorted, and modernized these beloved styles into something entirely new. Giallo masters Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani provide the perfect example. This year, the duo returns for their third full-length feature, this time focusing their talents on a sun-baked heist thriller. While its story is rather incomprehensible (even for admirers of their previous work), the force of their filmmaking remains astoundingly immersive.
Three criminals steal a massive amount of gold and hide out at an old castle with the sinister Madame Luce. A woman, having kidnapped her son during a nasty divorce, escapes to the castle as well. Cops poke around their sanctuary, kicking off a deadly shootout between them,...
Three criminals steal a massive amount of gold and hide out at an old castle with the sinister Madame Luce. A woman, having kidnapped her son during a nasty divorce, escapes to the castle as well. Cops poke around their sanctuary, kicking off a deadly shootout between them,...
- 11/16/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
The last few weeks have felt like an endless marathon for this writer, trying to keep up with a myriad of cinematic delights, including this latest batch of films I saw while at the 2017 Fantastic Fest last month. Read on for my thoughts on this trio of amazing indie movies, including first-time feature filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, My Friend Dahmer from Marc Meyer, and Let the Corpses Tan by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.
Revenge: It’s no secret that the decision to attend Fantastic Fest this year came with some controversy attached to it, especially in regards to the issues of sexual assault and the way women can be, and have been, treated by society. And for Fargeat, she embraced this controversy with her bold decision to still screen her film Revenge in Austin, and I have to say, I am So glad she did. In what...
Revenge: It’s no secret that the decision to attend Fantastic Fest this year came with some controversy attached to it, especially in regards to the issues of sexual assault and the way women can be, and have been, treated by society. And for Fargeat, she embraced this controversy with her bold decision to still screen her film Revenge in Austin, and I have to say, I am So glad she did. In what...
- 10/24/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
For my money, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are two of the best genre directors working today. Their two feature-length gialli, Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2014) are among the greatest "throwback" films of all-time, taking the vocabulary and iconography of the giallo and twisting it into something new and exciting, all while playing with the cinematic form with a barrage of close-ups, split screens, and Chris Marker-esque jump-cut slideshows. The only downside is that, as of the time of this writing, only the aforementioned gialli are available for viewing, while their latest film, Let the Corpses Tan, won’t be released stateside until this summer. So what’s a fan of hyper-stylized neo-gialli to do? Why, turn to their shorts, of course!
Like many filmmakers, Cattet and Forzani honed the aesthetic they’d use in their later films through their early shorts. Unlike all filmmakers,...
Like many filmmakers, Cattet and Forzani honed the aesthetic they’d use in their later films through their early shorts. Unlike all filmmakers,...
- 10/20/2017
- by Perry Ruhland
- DailyDead
Review by Matthew Turner
Stars: Elina Lowensohn, Stephane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Herve Sogne, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbe, Pierre Nisse, Marine Sainsily, Dorilya Calmel, Aline Stevens, Dominique Troyes, Bamba | Written and Directed by Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Belgian co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani garnered an instant cult following with Amer (2009) and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013), both of which paid luxurious homage to 1970s giallo movies. Their latest film, Let the Corpses Tan (or Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres, original language fans) sees the pair applying their expert pastiche skills to violent European crime thrillers of the same decade, to deliriously enjoyable effect.
Loosely adapted from a 1971 French novel by Jean-Patrick Machete and Jean-Pierre Bastid, the plot is deceptively simple and a good deal more coherent than either of Cattet and Forzani’s previous films. Former Hal Hartley muse Elina Lowensohn plays Luce, a middle-aged artist who lives in a run-down,...
Stars: Elina Lowensohn, Stephane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Herve Sogne, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbe, Pierre Nisse, Marine Sainsily, Dorilya Calmel, Aline Stevens, Dominique Troyes, Bamba | Written and Directed by Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Belgian co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani garnered an instant cult following with Amer (2009) and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013), both of which paid luxurious homage to 1970s giallo movies. Their latest film, Let the Corpses Tan (or Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres, original language fans) sees the pair applying their expert pastiche skills to violent European crime thrillers of the same decade, to deliriously enjoyable effect.
Loosely adapted from a 1971 French novel by Jean-Patrick Machete and Jean-Pierre Bastid, the plot is deceptively simple and a good deal more coherent than either of Cattet and Forzani’s previous films. Former Hal Hartley muse Elina Lowensohn plays Luce, a middle-aged artist who lives in a run-down,...
- 10/18/2017
- by Guest
- Nerdly
February is known as Women in Horror Month, when the spotlight is put on female filmmakers working inside our favorite genre, and many horror sites run pieces about movies directed by women. And that’s great! But there’s no reason why that spotlight should be limited to only one month, particularly when there are so many brilliant and talented female filmmakers working in the genre. Why not use this October to hit up these titles on Shudder and get to know some of the most exciting female voices in horror right now?
Prevenge (2016, dir. Alice Lowe) Alice Lowe writes, directs, and stars in this darkly comic, twisted fantasy about a woman who is very, very pregnant (Lowe herself was pregnant during shooting) and goes on a killing spree when her unborn baby talks to her and tells her to take revenge for a past tragedy. The film never fully transcends its gimmick,...
Prevenge (2016, dir. Alice Lowe) Alice Lowe writes, directs, and stars in this darkly comic, twisted fantasy about a woman who is very, very pregnant (Lowe herself was pregnant during shooting) and goes on a killing spree when her unborn baby talks to her and tells her to take revenge for a past tragedy. The film never fully transcends its gimmick,...
- 10/13/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Writing-directing team Hélèn Cattet and Bruno Forzani burst onto the genre film scene in 2009 with the highly original Amer, a giallo-inspired experimental horror/thriller about different ages of one girl's life. Their second feature, The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, went even further into mystery and strangeness in a more obscure story. Their third feature, Let the Corpses Tan, is something of an experiment for Cattet and Forzani, in that it comes from an original novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette. The result of the pair's high style with a complicated story, while (as always) beautiful to see and hear, is not entirely successful. On the gorgeous Italian coast, a criminal trio headed by Rhino has staged a dramatic robbery of an armed vehicle, killing four...
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- 9/23/2017
- Screen Anarchy
While some filmmakers are branded as putting style above substance, for directing duo Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (“Amer,” “The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears”) style is the substance. Strain as hard you might, you won’t find any subversive subtext or deep thematic texture in “Let The Corpses Tan,” and anything resembling poetry doesn’t go much further than the title.
Continue reading ‘Let The Corpses Tan’: Bold, Surreal, Bombastic Blast From ‘Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears’ Team [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Let The Corpses Tan’: Bold, Surreal, Bombastic Blast From ‘Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears’ Team [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/14/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind the stunning Giallo inspired Amer as well as The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, will throw glitter and gold all over the Toronto International Film Festival with their Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!), which premieres tonight at the ongoing event. Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid’s 1971 crime thriller, Let […]...
- 9/13/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s been a weekend full of reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival, and along with the premieres, it means producers or (if the film is lucky enough) distributors releasing the first look at footage in an attempt to drum up interest and stand out of the pack of hundreds of others at the festival. Well, it seems to have done the trick as we’re posting a round-up today.
First up, we have the first trailer for Let the Corpses Tan, the latest film from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. We reviewed it here, and the preview displays some of the visual inventiveness at play. Along with that, there are previews for three other anticipated projects, including the Netflix documentary One of Us, arriving on the platform on October, as well as a pair of...
First up, we have the first trailer for Let the Corpses Tan, the latest film from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. We reviewed it here, and the preview displays some of the visual inventiveness at play. Along with that, there are previews for three other anticipated projects, including the Netflix documentary One of Us, arriving on the platform on October, as well as a pair of...
- 9/11/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have gone about in some kind of relative obscurity since their first feature Amer in 2009. While that striking debut perhaps should’ve garnered them more attention, as well as the subsequent The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, it feels safe to say they’re not out to get that crossover hit. If anything, they seem content kind of just doing the same thing over and over again.
To those not in the know, their whole deal is doing riffs on genre that cut out virtually all the connective tissue, leaving simply a procession of visual tropes. In the case of Let the Corpses Tan, there’s closeups on squinted eyes and gun barrels, aggressive whip pans and overbearing Morricone-esque music cues. Some will say they’re filmmakers made for those who find most Italian exploitation movies boring for the...
To those not in the know, their whole deal is doing riffs on genre that cut out virtually all the connective tissue, leaving simply a procession of visual tropes. In the case of Let the Corpses Tan, there’s closeups on squinted eyes and gun barrels, aggressive whip pans and overbearing Morricone-esque music cues. Some will say they’re filmmakers made for those who find most Italian exploitation movies boring for the...
- 9/10/2017
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Having plunged as deep as their knives could go into the long-dead corpse of the giallo genre in Amer and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani now forge a kind of hybrid of the spaghetti Westerns and Italian crime films of the late ’60s, stripping out nearly all story and keeping the sublime transfixion on material iconography and brute behaviour. Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette’s lean debut novel from 1971 (co-written by Jean-Pierre Bastid, who, like Manchette, was also immersed in genre cinema), Let the Corpses Tan opens with target practice shooting up neo-expressionist paintings, introducing the two groups (artists and gangsters) hiding atop a Corsican redoubt. After a whip-fast gold heist along the coast (executed by Cattet and Forzani with a fiercely staccato musical precision) attracts the local police, the mixed-class gang holes up in the sun-baked ruins to fight first against the law and,...
- 9/10/2017
- MUBI
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind the stunning Giallo inspired Amer as well as The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, have thrown glitter and gold all over their new trailer for Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!), which looks like it contains an epic and bloody shootout. Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette and […]...
- 9/4/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Belgian filmmaking duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet won a legion of dedicated fans around the world with their dazzling neo-giallo debut Amer several years back and they remain some of the most striking talents in European cinema today. While they've shifted styles slightly from project to project their signature style is always immediately recognizable, layered as it is with gorgeous retro-chic visuals. And the pair is back on the festival circuit now with their latest - a western titled Let The Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres) - screening in Locarno and Toronto. Here's how Toronto describes it: Tiff Vanguard veterans Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani weaponize their aesthetic proclivities into an all-out bombardment of sensational style as they methodically adapt every devilish detail...
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- 9/3/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Stylish swagger goes full-tilt boogie in Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres), the latest delirious exercise in lovingly retro pastiche from Brussels-based writer-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Having amassed a devoted cult following with luridly horror-flavored Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013), the duo now adapt an influential 1971 French novel. The result is a spectacularly assaultive, borderline incoherent neo-Western that will recruit few new converts but is also guaranteed to leave no spectator indifferent. Bowing on Locarno's Piazza Grande, it's a must for festivals specializing in outre fare — midnight slots appeal —...
- 7/30/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind the stunning giallo inspired Amer as well as The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, have shared their first art poster for Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!), courtesy of Bac Films, Anonymes Films and Tobina Film. Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid’s 1971 crime thriller, Let […]...
- 7/19/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid’s 1971 crime thriller, Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres) is the third feature from filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, who previously brought us Amer and The Strange Color of… Continue Reading →
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- 7/19/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
This. This is a terrific poster. Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet - the duo behind Amer and The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears - have a new film coming out Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres/Let The Corpses Tan. We may have talked about it. A bit. Their take on the western genre will have its world premiere next month and this amazing poster was just released in time for that. There is the seductive figure with the smoking gun and the, er, placement of the sun flare. The gloved hand, reaching for mercy or in defense, out of splatters of gold, are they? And the crosses, hazy in the background, markers for the dead. Golly we love this poster!
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- 7/18/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Andrew Harwood, Lucy Drive, Désirée Giorgetti, David White, Eleonora Marianelli | Written by Lorenzo Paviano, Raffaele Picchio | Directed by Luca Boni, Marco Ristori
John (Andrew Harwood) and his wife Kate (Lucy Drive) seem to have it all. They have just moved in to a beautiful house in the Italian countryside (it definitely looks Italian at least.), they are making waves with their photography and painting and to top it off, they are planning for a baby. However, there seems to trouble in their rural paradise and I don’t just mean Kate’s rather dishy, yet invasive friend Corinne (Désirée Giorgetti). You see, there may be something sinister going on in the house potentially involving its previous tenants. Maybe it’s just John and Kate going stir-crazy? Maybe the suspiciously British local priest (David White) has some answers for the couple?
Ok. One thing that really stands out about House of Evil...
John (Andrew Harwood) and his wife Kate (Lucy Drive) seem to have it all. They have just moved in to a beautiful house in the Italian countryside (it definitely looks Italian at least.), they are making waves with their photography and painting and to top it off, they are planning for a baby. However, there seems to trouble in their rural paradise and I don’t just mean Kate’s rather dishy, yet invasive friend Corinne (Désirée Giorgetti). You see, there may be something sinister going on in the house potentially involving its previous tenants. Maybe it’s just John and Kate going stir-crazy? Maybe the suspiciously British local priest (David White) has some answers for the couple?
Ok. One thing that really stands out about House of Evil...
- 6/8/2017
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet - the duo behind Amer and The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears - turn their sights from giallo to the western with their upcoming third feature, Let The Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres). And while th genre may have shifted it would appear that the time period and general style that they tend to draw upon very much has not. The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun….and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration. Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to...
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- 5/7/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Fans of Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet rejoice! We've been waiting for the latest from the Belgian duo behind dazzling neo-giallo pictures Amer and The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears for some time now and the first teaser for their upcomign western Let The Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres) has arrived and it is clearly, unmistakably theirs. The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun….and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration. Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield….Relentless and...
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- 3/16/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Anna Biller captures the colours, style and mores of the lurid 70s in this near-perfect pastiche
Stiletto-sharp and as precise as a stocking seam, Anna Biller’s terrific homage to campy 1960s and 70s sexploitation horror movies is a riot of synthetic hair and vampy overacting. Biller, who designed the costumes and sets as well as writing, directing, editing and producing, has immersed herself in the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-meets-Hammer psychological-shocker aesthetic. Hers is a witty and playful approach, but as with her 2007 film Viva – a lascivious, early 70s B-movie take on the sexual revolution – Biller lovingly recreates the film-making of the era with a fan’s obsession to detail. As such, it reminded me of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s giallo pastiche, Amer: both pictures are deliciously lurid but wholly serious in their appreciation of the genre they evoke.
Biller cites George Romero’s...
Stiletto-sharp and as precise as a stocking seam, Anna Biller’s terrific homage to campy 1960s and 70s sexploitation horror movies is a riot of synthetic hair and vampy overacting. Biller, who designed the costumes and sets as well as writing, directing, editing and producing, has immersed herself in the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-meets-Hammer psychological-shocker aesthetic. Hers is a witty and playful approach, but as with her 2007 film Viva – a lascivious, early 70s B-movie take on the sexual revolution – Biller lovingly recreates the film-making of the era with a fan’s obsession to detail. As such, it reminded me of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s giallo pastiche, Amer: both pictures are deliciously lurid but wholly serious in their appreciation of the genre they evoke.
Biller cites George Romero’s...
- 3/12/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013) is showing February 4 - March 6 and Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975) is showing February 5 - March 7, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the double feature Giallo/Meta Giallo.“I know it when I see it.” Like film noir, the giallo is one of those genres as easy to pin down as it is difficult to define. More often than not, what constitutes a giallo rests on a given film’s balance of emblematic imagery and an archetypal storyline, while other factors like tone, score, and setting will also play a part in its classification. Arguably no filmmaker has had a more stylish and deftly rigorous hand in establishing these defining traits than Dario Argento. And his 1975 film, Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), is perhaps as good as it gets,...
- 2/26/2017
- MUBI
Fans of Amer and The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet's third feature - the fabulously titled western Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres (Let The Corpses Tan) - and with production now wrapped we should expect to see the PR machine starting to kick into gear. The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun….and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration. Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield….Relentless and mindblowing. Elina...
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- 2/22/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Fans of Belgian directing duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet rejoice! The Amer and Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears directors have wrapped production on their upcoming third feature Let The Corpses Tan (Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres) and the first image has arrived online! After a pair of giallo influenced efforts this adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid's cult novel veers into western territory, telling the tale of a group of thieves hiding out in remote territory following a gold heist. As you can tell from the image, things don't go so well. We will, of course, be watching closely for more on this one so expect more news in weeks to come! Check out the image below and remember you can click to...
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- 9/2/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Bac releases first image of third feature from cult genre film directors.
Bac Films International has picked up sales on French genre writer-director duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s upcoming feature.
Let The Corpses Tan is the third feature from the Brussels-based couple after their cult ‘giallo’-inspired hits The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears and Amer.
The new work is adapted from the debut novel of late 1970s French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres, which Manchette co-wrote with screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bastid.
Set against the blue seas and blazing sun of a perfect Mediterranean summer, the film revolves around Rhino and his gang of professional thieves.
They think they have found the perfect place to hide out and stash a haul of gold in a remote hamlet controlled by a female artist who moved there for inspiration.
But the arrival of surprise guests and two police officers compromise their plan. The...
Bac Films International has picked up sales on French genre writer-director duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s upcoming feature.
Let The Corpses Tan is the third feature from the Brussels-based couple after their cult ‘giallo’-inspired hits The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears and Amer.
The new work is adapted from the debut novel of late 1970s French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez Bronzer les Cadavres, which Manchette co-wrote with screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bastid.
Set against the blue seas and blazing sun of a perfect Mediterranean summer, the film revolves around Rhino and his gang of professional thieves.
They think they have found the perfect place to hide out and stash a haul of gold in a remote hamlet controlled by a female artist who moved there for inspiration.
But the arrival of surprise guests and two police officers compromise their plan. The...
- 8/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Tuesday, July 5th is looking to be a busy start to another month of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases as there seems to be something for everyone coming to Blu-ray and DVD this week. Arrow Video has given Mario Bava’s Giallo classic Blood and Black Lace the royal treatment with their new two-disc special edition release and for those of you in the mood for an anthology film, Holidays is making its way to DVD on Tuesday.
Other notable titles arriving on July 5th include The Pack, the Cabin Fever remake, The Levenger Tapes, Circle and two different editions of Parasyte – Maxim: Collection 2.
Blood and Black Lace: Two-Disc Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu/DVD)
Six Models. Six Victims For A Crazed Masked Killer. The Cristian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models... and backstabbing... and blackmail... and drug deals... and Murder.
Having established a template...
Other notable titles arriving on July 5th include The Pack, the Cabin Fever remake, The Levenger Tapes, Circle and two different editions of Parasyte – Maxim: Collection 2.
Blood and Black Lace: Two-Disc Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu/DVD)
Six Models. Six Victims For A Crazed Masked Killer. The Cristian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models... and backstabbing... and blackmail... and drug deals... and Murder.
Having established a template...
- 7/5/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Arrow Video announced an early July Us release of Blood and Black Lace (1964) on Blu-ray and DVD as well as a limited edition Steelbook. Directed by Mario Bava, the Blood and Black Lace Blu-ray / DVD is packed with features including, but not limited to, a 2K restoration of the original film and a new documentary exploring the giallo genre.
From Arrow Video: “New Us Title: Blood and Black Lace (Arrow Video) Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD and Blu-ray SteelBook editions.
A Bava classic heading to U.S. shores!
Pre-order the SteelBook here: http://amzn.to/1qy2O9k
Pre-order the Blu-ray here: http://amzn.to/1qy2SpA
U.S. Release Date: 4th July 2016
Region: A+B / 1+2
Six Models. Six Victims For A Crazed Masked Killer.
The Cristian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models… and backstabbing… and blackmail… and drug deals… and Murder.
Having established a template for...
From Arrow Video: “New Us Title: Blood and Black Lace (Arrow Video) Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD and Blu-ray SteelBook editions.
A Bava classic heading to U.S. shores!
Pre-order the SteelBook here: http://amzn.to/1qy2O9k
Pre-order the Blu-ray here: http://amzn.to/1qy2SpA
U.S. Release Date: 4th July 2016
Region: A+B / 1+2
Six Models. Six Victims For A Crazed Masked Killer.
The Cristian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models… and backstabbing… and blackmail… and drug deals… and Murder.
Having established a template for...
- 4/13/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres
Director: Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet
Writers: Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet
Last year, we had included this new project from ‘neo-giallists’ Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet, the Belgian duo behind such loving fetish genre items such as Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013). They’re working on a film noir project, an adaptation of author Jean-Patrick Manchette’s 1971 novel, Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres (translated as Let the Bodies Sunbathe). In early October this year, the duo received financial support from Wallimage, but there hasn’t been an update on the project since. Their last feature unexpectedly popped up in the Locarno line-up in 2013, so we’re choosing to assume they’re somewhere along in the process. However, it seems as if we can expect the film to be re-titled following the Wallimage announcement, where the project was simply listed as a film noir approached from a fetishist angle.
Director: Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet
Writers: Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet
Last year, we had included this new project from ‘neo-giallists’ Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet, the Belgian duo behind such loving fetish genre items such as Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013). They’re working on a film noir project, an adaptation of author Jean-Patrick Manchette’s 1971 novel, Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres (translated as Let the Bodies Sunbathe). In early October this year, the duo received financial support from Wallimage, but there hasn’t been an update on the project since. Their last feature unexpectedly popped up in the Locarno line-up in 2013, so we’re choosing to assume they’re somewhere along in the process. However, it seems as if we can expect the film to be re-titled following the Wallimage announcement, where the project was simply listed as a film noir approached from a fetishist angle.
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Evolution
Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Alanté Kavaïté
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France, 2014
It is difficult to discuss Evolution without giving away a lot of its surprises. Needless-to-say, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s masterful film (only her second in a decade) is disturbing, beautiful and restrained. Mysterious from beginning to end, the film challenges and intrigues, reaching down inside to grab hold of something within us all that is ancient and primordial, engaging on a level that exists within not only a collective imagination but our collective biology. As the tide of revelation comes in, new details are revealed, yet when it recedes it takes something else with it. So the audience is left to keep afloat in a cloudy brine of opaque truths making for a claustrophobic experience with no easy way out.
On a strange island, Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with a group of other young boys overseen by a watchful group of androgynous women.
Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Alanté Kavaïté
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France, 2014
It is difficult to discuss Evolution without giving away a lot of its surprises. Needless-to-say, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s masterful film (only her second in a decade) is disturbing, beautiful and restrained. Mysterious from beginning to end, the film challenges and intrigues, reaching down inside to grab hold of something within us all that is ancient and primordial, engaging on a level that exists within not only a collective imagination but our collective biology. As the tide of revelation comes in, new details are revealed, yet when it recedes it takes something else with it. So the audience is left to keep afloat in a cloudy brine of opaque truths making for a claustrophobic experience with no easy way out.
On a strange island, Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with a group of other young boys overseen by a watchful group of androgynous women.
- 10/18/2015
- by Liam Dunn
- SoundOnSight
When discussing the arthouse-inflected new wave of Giallo last week, the elephant in the room failed to be mentioned- the downward decline of the genre’s spiritual godfather, Dario Argento. The remake of his 1977 genre benchmark Suspiria is being made with his blessing (he is on board the project as a producer), another sign that he is one of the few classic horror directors unafraid of having new directors reinterpret his back catalogue. He himself even tried to remake his 1975 film Deep Red in 3D at the turn of the decade, only to be refused financing after the latest in a string of critical and commercial backfires.
Both of these facts point to the idea of a director who is permanently stuck in the past, with a stubborn refusal to adapt to modern horror trends; even whilst still directing Giallo movies, he retains the old school exploitation aesthetic that alludes...
Both of these facts point to the idea of a director who is permanently stuck in the past, with a stubborn refusal to adapt to modern horror trends; even whilst still directing Giallo movies, he retains the old school exploitation aesthetic that alludes...
- 10/13/2015
- by Alistair Ryder
- SoundOnSight
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of homages to the giallo genre including Peter Strickland’s clever, slightly bizarre and altogether mesmerizing thriller Berberian Sound Studio, as well as Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy’s The Editor and the gorgeous, sometimes clever, and visceral Amer from directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Now an Argentinian filmmaker is taking his stab at the genre with Francesca which will have its world premiere at Sitges in Spain at the beginning of October. If you know and love giallo you will love the first poster they’ve released to promote the film. Enjoy!
Synopsis: “It’s been 15 years since the disappearance of little Francesca, daughter of the renowned storyteller, poet and dramatist Vittorio Visconti, and the community is stalked by a psychopath bent on cleaning the city of “impure and damned souls”. Moretti and Succo, questioned by the ineffectiveness of the police force,...
Synopsis: “It’s been 15 years since the disappearance of little Francesca, daughter of the renowned storyteller, poet and dramatist Vittorio Visconti, and the community is stalked by a psychopath bent on cleaning the city of “impure and damned souls”. Moretti and Succo, questioned by the ineffectiveness of the police force,...
- 9/19/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
UK residents have been enjoying Arrow Video Blu-ray releases of cult films like Maniac Cop and The Funhouse for years, and soon horror hounds living stateside can enjoy the diligent distributor’s offerings now that Arrow Video is expanding to the Us. To commemorate their growth, Arrow Video has announced upcoming North American Blu-ray releases of Mark of the Devil, Blind Woman’s Curse, and more.
Making their Blu-ray debuts in the Us, 1970’s Mark of the Devil will come out on March 17th and 1971’s Blind Woman’s Curse (aka Black Cat’s Revenge on March 24th. Arrow Video will also release the Blu-ray of Blood and Black Lace on April 14th and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne to Blu-ray on April 21st. All four releases will include a DVD copy, as well. We have the official press release with full details, as well as...
Making their Blu-ray debuts in the Us, 1970’s Mark of the Devil will come out on March 17th and 1971’s Blind Woman’s Curse (aka Black Cat’s Revenge on March 24th. Arrow Video will also release the Blu-ray of Blood and Black Lace on April 14th and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne to Blu-ray on April 21st. All four releases will include a DVD copy, as well. We have the official press release with full details, as well as...
- 1/14/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Directors: Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani // Writers: Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Belgian couple Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani have amassed quite a notable following based on their first two films, Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013), both reconstitutions of the giallo film. Visually spectacular examinations that generally overwhelm the slight, elliptical plots confined somewhere within them, their next film seems to be a change of pace. Based on a 1971 novel by famed French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette (who wrote the novel upon which the upcoming Sean Penn film The Gunman was based) and co-written with Jean-Pierre Bastid, Let the Bodies Sunbathe! (aka Corpses in the Sun) seems to center around the eccentric hostess of an isolated locale who comes in contact with stolen gold in a van as well as policemen on the trail of the perpetrators that attempted to steal it.
Directors: Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani // Writers: Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Belgian couple Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani have amassed quite a notable following based on their first two films, Amer (2009) and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013), both reconstitutions of the giallo film. Visually spectacular examinations that generally overwhelm the slight, elliptical plots confined somewhere within them, their next film seems to be a change of pace. Based on a 1971 novel by famed French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette (who wrote the novel upon which the upcoming Sean Penn film The Gunman was based) and co-written with Jean-Pierre Bastid, Let the Bodies Sunbathe! (aka Corpses in the Sun) seems to center around the eccentric hostess of an isolated locale who comes in contact with stolen gold in a van as well as policemen on the trail of the perpetrators that attempted to steal it.
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Welcome back everyone for the final day of Daily Dead’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide! Because it’s been an exceptional year for genre fans, we’re focusing today on recapping more books and films that would make for great gifts this holiday season and are perfect for all fans. We’ve also got another great find from over on Etsy and we’re celebrating a new subscription service from the fine folks over at Waxworks Records.
And be sure to check out today’s final Holiday Horrors trivia question below for your shot at winning some awesome merchandise from our fine sponsors at HorrorDecor.net, Scream Factory and Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Thanks so much for following along with our 2014 Holiday Gift Guide and I hope you guys had as much fun reading the series as I had putting it together!
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And be sure to check out today’s final Holiday Horrors trivia question below for your shot at winning some awesome merchandise from our fine sponsors at HorrorDecor.net, Scream Factory and Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Thanks so much for following along with our 2014 Holiday Gift Guide and I hope you guys had as much fun reading the series as I had putting it together!
Vendor Spotlight: Waxwork Records
Waxwork Records specializes in releasing horror,...
- 12/12/2014
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Total 47 film projects selected for Federation Wallonia-Brussels support.
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have been quietly making their personal visions into vivid realities in Belgium for almost fifteen years. They began with short films (Catharsis and Chambre jaune) but it was their 2009 debut feature Amer that broke through, not only astonishing the world-premiere audience at the 15th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival but also ending up on Quentin Tarantino’s 20 Best of the Year list. Their first decade of filmmaking used a very bold brush dipped deeply in the viscous ink of seventies Italian giallo films (think Dario Argento’s unseen phantoms—black-gloved, multicolored and backlit). But the entwined pair have now issued a crime film that moves even deeper into space and sound. For those ready to take the plunge, their latest, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, is a sumptuous bath.
- 9/4/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have been quietly making their personal visions into vivid realities in Belgium for almost fifteen years. They began with short films (Catharsis and Chambre jaune) but it was their 2009 debut feature Amer that broke through, not only astonishing the world-premiere audience at the 15th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival but also ending up on Quentin Tarantino’s 20 Best of the Year list. Their first decade of filmmaking used a very bold brush dipped deeply in the viscous ink of seventies Italian giallo films (think Dario Argento’s unseen phantoms—black-gloved, multicolored and backlit). But the entwined pair have now issued a crime film that moves even deeper into space and sound. For those ready to take the plunge, their latest, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, is a sumptuous bath.
- 9/4/2014
- Keyframe
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