Reflection in a Dead Diamond
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A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.
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This kaleidoscopic spy thriller divides audiences between those who worship its Mario Bava-inspired visual feast and those who find it an empty exercise in style over substance. Reviewers consistently praise its 'dopamine cinema' aesthetic and inventive gadgetry while struggling with its deliberately fragmented narrative about an aging spy's memories.
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- Feb 16, 2025
Their best film yet, a laser-focused audiovisual fetish board Franju Franco Bava Techniscope Eurospy movie, pretty much made exclusively for me.
matt lynchDec 5, 2025Dopamine cinema at its finest. A shimmering plunge into the mind of an aging movie star turned spy who can’t outrun the memories that made him a legend. What happens to the spy heroes long after their own "happily ever after" bs that comes with the genre? What if we could…
GrumpyMustardOct 17, 2025If Mario Bava directed a Connery Bond legacy sequel about him elderly, retired and sitting at a seaside resort having a refracted kaleidoscopic deathdream about his (and his screen persona’s) career + a Karloff in Targets/Arnold in Last Action Hero meta-identity crisis…
Josh Lewis - Dec 16, 2025
I would be fascinated to see what Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani could do with a more conventional Hollywood screenplay. Imagine if they had a crack at, say, Scott Frank's sensual, ticking-clock sensibility. Anyway, this a freight train of visual execution, every single…
Sean FennesseyJun 7, 2025If rating on vibes alone, this would probably be five stars. The 70’s spy thriller / giallo aesthetic saturates every corner of every frame. The retro inspired spy tech and gadgetry is some of the most incentive I’ve seen. Mirrored shots, split diopters, add to the…
Kevflix And ChillDec 10, 202587 Cattet and Forzani never miss, especially in the realm of intoxicated high-brow style, but their usual fetishistic academic angle carries a heavy existential weight here. The tired, regretful ramblings of an old spy nested inside a jumble of memories and fantasies. An…
SilentDawn - Jun 30, 2025
One of the things I dislike the most about these contemporary exercises in genre deconstruction (giallo, in this case) is how they often follow an academic process of dissolving everything that once made the genre compelling, amounting only superficial visual references and…
Diogo SerafimJan 1, 2026RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI Like I’ve mentioned a few times before, every now and then a film emerges seemingly out of nowhere and receives critical acclaim from nearly everyone who watches it. That’s both a blessing and a curse for me: a blessing because it raises my hopes for…
Rafael "Mister Movie" JovineFeb 16, 2025No need to "deconstruct" these images, just take them at face value. Cinema is second-hand illusion anyway and beautiful because of it.
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- Louis Bahouth likedReflection in a Dead Diamond
If you like the artsy-fartsy stuff, you'll like this one
Joshua Lekach likedReflection in a Dead DiamondItalian Good
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Metacritic
Dec 5, 2025
A little of this stuff goes a long way with Cattet and Forzani, who have always seemed more immersed in image-making than in the tedious business of telling a story with a mind toward pace and characterization. To experience their films is to toggle between exhilaration and enervation, and hope the balance tips the right way in the end, which it ultimately does with Reflection in a Dead Diamond.
Scott Tobias
The Reveal
Dec 5, 2025
“Reflection” is a highly playful exercise in its kaleidoscopic approach, though “kaleidoscopic” is about as useful as “surreal” in describing the film’s effect or philosophy.
John Anderson
Wall Street Journal
Dec 4, 2025
As a sumptuous visual spectacle shot by the formidable DP Manu Dacosse, it’s a labyrinth worth getting lost in
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
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How long is Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)?
The movie is 1hr 27min long.
What's Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) about?
A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.
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