Director: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Starring: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener
My Rating: Liked It
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears is an ambiguous work of surrealist horror, a la David Lynch on psychedelics. The film is stylistically captivating with incredibly creative and twisted visuals second by second for the whole duration. It really is a full on aggressive attack on the viewers' senses.
The "story" starts out with a businessman returning home to his apartment building to discover his wife is gone. He then begins to wander around the building asking his neighbors questions about his missing wife. A few of these interactions catapult the viewer into crazy, trippy, and disgusting flashbacks. Don't get me wrong though, this whole film is crazy and trippy, not just those flashbacks. A diary is found in the film, and the resulting flashback is seriously the best Nightmare on Elm Street freddy-like dream to be on film in a few decades. That segment would fit right at home in a Kreuger film.
The movie is so ambiguous to the point that I never really knew what exactly was going on, but at the same time I still felt like I was figuring things out about the story in waves throughout the movie. Whether I was right is anybody's guess. I'm already intrigued at the thought of watching it again and trying to piece the puzzle together; if there even is a puzzle there at all.
Some people may be turned off by how vague and hard to figure out the story is, but when it comes to filmmaking one thing is for certain: The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears has more creativity in any given solitary minute of its full run time than a lot of movies have in their whole durations.