Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!)
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A bullet-riddled and blood-splattered homage to 1970s Spaghetti Westerns and Italian crime films, Let The Corpses Tan comes from Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer). An eccentric gang of thieves hides out in a crumbling village on the Mediterranean with their latest bounty (a BUNCH of gold). It’s the perfect getaway - until unexpected visitors, including two cops who ride up on motorcycles to investigate, compromise their hideout. What follows is a stylish, saturated, and sundrenched tale of whirling violence and shifting allegiances as an all-day, all-night firefight commences.
Cast
- Elina Löwensohn
- Stéphane Ferrara
- Bernie Bonvoisin
- Michelangelo Marchese
- Marc Barbé
- Hervé Sogne
- Pierre Nisse
- Marine Sainsily
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- Sep 8, 2018
AMAZING!!!!! Do whatever you can to see this on the big screen. It's a tour de force. Transcends being an homage. Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have achieved something very special with this film. I adore cinematographer Manuel Dacosse.
Sean BakerSep 1, 2017Another fully abstracted genre hook but without AMER and STRANGE COLOUR's deconstructionist streak, this is pure style. A narrative so stripped into one glorious tactile insert after another that the only way to interact with it is via osmosis. DJANGO KILL meets PIERROT LE…
matt lynchJul 8, 2023Well, I definitely wasn't expecting any of this. Again, for some reason I thought this was a low budget 80s horror movie, so right off the bat my expectations were misguided. And, well, this is a film that could go down in history as the epitome of "style over…
Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine - Sep 22, 2017
Best golden shower of 2017
matt lynchSep 9, 2017"This should never stop. Tonight should last forever.” Spaghetti Western meets B-Eurocrime flick in Let The Corpses Tan, an arthouse-grindhouse sensory assault by husband and wife duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer, The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears). Adapted…
Josh LewisSep 9, 201768/100 Pretty sure I've now heard more creaking leather in Cattet and Forzani's work than I have in the other 8,000+ films I've seen combined. Their assaultive staccato style remains difficult to sustain at feature length—Amer works in large part because it's effectively…
Mike D'Angelo - Nov 27, 2018
somewhere in an alternate universe this film rightfully replaced pulp fiction as the holy grail of spawning millions of insufferable cinebros to go to film school to imitate hélène cattet and bruno forzani's style and im the most annoying fan of theirs possible...but i'll…
WesNov 22, 2018looks very cool!!! too bad i didn't care about literally any of it
nadineNov 13, 2025Sags in the middle a wee bit perhaps, but when this thing's riding high, it'll makes sure everyone's really paying attention. I'm extremely impressed at the abstract visual imagination of these filmmakers; at their ability to take something as typical and formulaic as a…
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- Jacob likedLet the Corpses Tan
great movie, good plot, very engaging, very artistic in a good way. The only bad thing is that it was overly sexual at times and I didn't love that.
Louis Bahouth likedLet the Corpses Tanvery artsy movie without being pretentious. A modern day western
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Aug 30, 2018
Let the Corpses Tan — or, to use its even better French title, “Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres” — is a feverish, obsessive act of cinematic rehabilitation, a shoot-’em-up conceived in tribute to a peculiar strain of blood-spattered B-movies from the 1960s and ’70s.
Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times
Aug 30, 2018
A formalist experiment that soon devolves into a mannerist indulgence.
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018)?
The movie is 1hr 32min long.
What's Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018) about?
A bullet-riddled and blood-splattered homage to 1970s Spaghetti Westerns and Italian crime films, Let The Corpses Tan comes from Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer). An eccentric gang of thieves hides out in a crumbling village on the Mediterranean with their latest bounty (a BUNCH of gold). It’s the perfect getaway - until unexpected visitors, including two cops who ride up on motorcycles to investigate, compromise their hideout. What follows is a stylish, saturated, and sundrenched tale of whirling violence and shifting allegiances as an all-day, all-night firefight commences.
Who's the cast of Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018)?
- Elina Löwensohn as Luce
- Stéphane Ferrara as Rhino
- Bernie Bonvoisin as La brute
- Michelangelo Marchese as L'avocat
- Marc Barbé as Max Bernier
- Hervé Sogne as Le policier
- Pierre Nisse as Le jeune
- Marine Sainsily as La nounou
Who's the director behind Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018)?
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani directed Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018).
Who produced Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018)?
Eve Commenge and Francois Cognard produced Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018).
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