AMER directors, Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, continues to show how wide of a spectrum their palate extends with THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS. The film, much like AMER, is a nearly narrative mess, but the visuals… Reminiscent of both Mario Bava and very early Dario Argento, STRANGE COLOR is a psycho-sexual wonderland of imagery and staging. The film feels very much like a modern-day giallo and uses a lot of that sub-genre’s tropes, but with the technological advancements of the last few years, the final result is a visual feast. Acting is fairly wooden, but again… that’s not why you paid your admission fee, now is it? The film is fairly adult in tone, but the sexuality is kept mostly to some nudity and the violence is pretty mundane. But again, these directors’ visual sense is superlative and very much look forward to their next films. Recommended, but with some caveats...
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
~ Thom Carnell
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