Argento’s Never Been More Proud
An Italian Giallo done by way of France, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears is a true homage in every sense of the word.
Dan Kristensen is out of sorts after coming home from a business trip to find his wife has disappeared. The more he questions the other tenants, the more he learns of horrifying events that have taken place in his apartment complex. Strange things have been happening for a long time and until now, no one has done anything about it.
From the lavish architecture of the apartments, the stark blue and red color palette and the revolving kaleidoscope backgrounds, everything about this movie screams Argento. And that isn’t a bad thing. For once, they got it right. This isn’t just emulation, it’s a one-hundred percent pure homage, right on down to the soundtrack.
It grabbed me from the opening scene and really only lost its way momentarily around the midpoint when things devolved into a black and white, low frame rate art project. This section dragged but afterwards the film found its footing once again and the resolution more than made up for it.
Ignoring that little blip,The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears is one of the only successful attempts I’ve seen in a long time that managed to recreate the tone and feel of the old Giallo films I loved watching as a kid. Even though I’m more of a Profondo Rosso kind of guy, I highly recommend this to anyone who loves Argento, especially those who think Inferno is by far his greatest film.
Availability: Netflix US, Netflix Canada
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