The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears - 2013 - 6/10
AKA - L’étrange Couleur des Larmes de Ton Corps
Dan returns home from a trip, discovers wife Edwige missing.
Kidnapped or escaped? Police are doubtful, neighbors elusive.
One views this hallucinatory trip for the visuals. Lurid colors, stop motion photography.
If you attempt to follow any narrative you might end up lost, it is akin to clutching fog.
There is a peculiar chase under the bedsheets – or is it behind the wallpaper – or inside a hatbox?
The apartment building, in which this is set, is a wet dream of art nouveau.
An arthouse homage to Giallo, this is amazing, though often overwhelming.