53
Metascore
17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanA mysterious and disorientating blend of giallo violence, cinematic experimentation and Lynchian psychohorror. Revel in its bonkers beauty.
- 75Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanLengthy passages are unrelated to any discernible narrative, and seem to exist in that interzone your mind travels through just before it goes to sleep.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe main point of the film remains its style, which is so constantly and loudly reinforced that it’s often hard to concentrate on the story.
- The result is a love letter to the giallo genre spelled out in cut-up ransom-note writing – striking, but impossible to read.
- 50The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayIf The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears were Cattet and Forzani’s debut film, this might all feel fresher, and more revelatory. But as visually stunning as any given five minutes of this movie is, it doesn’t add up to much cumulatively.
- 40Time Out LondonNigel FloydTime Out LondonNigel FloydIf you make it as far as the obvious, disappointing denouement, you might be left asking yourself if the filmmakers’ abstract style is better suited to short films.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezOne can never fully shake the feeling that the sense of unease the filmmakers rouse, every act of seduction, infiltration, and vengeance they orchestrate, is borrowed.
- 30VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWhen does an exercise in style become a wearying ADD slog through blood-splattered pseudo-Freudian nonsense? When it’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears.