The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014) poster
2014 · horror · thriller · music

The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

Directed by Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet1h 42m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.94kRT51%Metacritic53
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder.

Our read · The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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