Film Review: The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (18) (Belgium/France/Luxembourg 2014) (Directors: Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) (French with English Subtitles),  The Cameo Cinema Screen Three, Edinburgh, Saturday 12.04.2014, 22:40

This is the second film by these directors, the first being 'Amer' (2009). Amer was quite abstract, though it was easy to detect the clear influence from giallo (70's Italian Horror Genre) and the films of David Lynch. Regrettably the plot was utterly impenetrable, even outdoing Lynch in this regard.

The new film was not as impenetrable though you had to pay attention to be able to have a sense as to what was going on. The film is a thriller that has a husband return from a business trip to his apartment to find his wife missing. The neighbors in the gorgeous art nouveau apartment block become suspicious and suspected. From there the tale descends into a labyrinth of post-modern horror and sustained threat.

Visually the film is sumptuous changing between saturated colour and ingenious use of split screen to high resolution blurred movement black and white. In terms of sound the film builds in a crescendo of noises that feel as though they invade the psyche.

This was a considerable step up from 'Amer'. I found it to be daring and engaging.

Rating: 08/10.