Hoop-Tober, Film 18 of 31: Unratable, hardly reviewable. One of the most abstract films that I have ever seen. Narrative cinema completely out the window. More sensory overload that a combination of all the films that Benoit Debie has shot put together. Nonlinear.…

Eli Hayes

I can understand how this could be an exhausting experience for a lot of viewers. It doesn't allow itself to breathe and has a very demanding presence. There's no wiggle room at all. I, however, am a genre fan of excess and it worked for me on a lot of levels. Typically I…

Scumbalina

calling this a mere giallo homage is way too reductive. like AMER it's a purely audio-visually abstracted exercise interrogating an entire subgenre's fear of female sexual desire and the consequences of that fear.

matt lynch

A few years back when I first heard about this film I was beyond exited, I liked Amer quite a bit and couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into what seemed to be right up my alley.  Sure, it’s beautiful and meticulously crafted—this duo is so talented but I felt like I was…

Ian West

A kaleidoscopic Giallogasm, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears is every fetishistic quirk and visually arresting Giallo motif ripped from the guts of an already strange sub-genre and spliced into something brilliantly deranged. I imagine that watching this film is…

Laurie Orla

"I'm looking for my wife." "She hadn’t disappeared, it was he who was afraid of disappearing." This movie is absolutely crazy, but it's also about someone going absolutely crazy, so it kind of makes sense in a senseless kind of way. In reductively simplistic terms,…

ScreeningNotes

All style and no substance makes Lou a dull boy.. Actually, that's not entirely true. I don't mind style over substance movies. I might even enjoy them more than most people. When the style undercuts a promising story setup, however, I tend to get annoyed. That's…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

french people being weird af , whos surprised , i also kinda hate the movie whilst also kinda liking it??

meyi

My Half Hooptober Impotent men and their naive fear-fantasy of feminine desire. The only pleasure he can imagine for her is in his own emasculation, because surely she must be conspiring in his defeat, that’s the only explanation he can imagine for his absolute…

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