The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 29, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistGabe ToroApr 4, 2014
The film is borderline installation-worthy, and would probably work just as well if the scenes were drastically re-arranged. Read full review
80
EmpireKim NewmanApr 7, 2014
A mysterious and disorientating blend of giallo violence, cinematic experimentation and Lynchian psychohorror. Revel in its bonkers beauty. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 3, 2014
It’s dazzling, but also excessive; by the end, even those consistently wowed by the directorial showmanship may find themselves feeling that less would have been more. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAug 29, 2014
It's a confrontational fever dream film told from constantly shifting perspectives, and a chilly, dizzying trip into a genre defined by violently conflicting emotions. Read full review
75
Film.comJordan HoffmanMar 8, 2014
Lengthy passages are unrelated to any discernible narrative, and seem to exist in that interzone your mind travels through just before it goes to sleep. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiAug 28, 2014
Above all, its gratuitous graphic gore and exploitative nudity are unmistakably giallo. What "The Strange Color" lacks is the heart that separates a good film from a great one. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 26, 2014
You don’t often see style this gorgeous (however empty), and that must count for something. Groovy soundtrack cues by Ennio Morricone and others do the heavy lifting. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt GlasbyApr 7, 2014
The result is a love letter to the giallo genre spelled out in cut-up ransom-note writing – striking, but impossible to read. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMar 8, 2014
The 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. Read full review
58
IndieWireEric KohnMar 8, 2014
A loud, visually assaultive assemblage of genre tropes as technically accomplished as it is difficult to watch, "The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears" has plenty to impress while simultaneously offering so little. Read full review
50
The DissolveNoel MurrayAug 26, 2014
If 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. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonNigel FloydApr 9, 2014
If 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. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 18, 2014
As tiresome as the relentless, indulgent inscrutability and lack of story momentum can be, it says something for the movie’s visceral power that there isn’t an urge to quit on it. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMar 8, 2014
One 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. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldAug 28, 2014
Enervatingly synthetic, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears slices and dices the images and tropes of Italian giallo-style slasher films into an inert pile of style. Read full review
30
Village VoiceSam WeisbergAug 26, 2014
Without characters whose fates we care about, nor fully comprehend, even the most visceral shocks are just that: impressive moments with no lingering terror. Read full review
30
VarietyJay WeissbergMar 8, 2014
When 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. Read full review
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