El extraño color de las lágrimas de tu cuerpo

Un misterioso mosaico de alucinaciones que pueden o no significar algo para la sencilla trama de «la mujer de un hombre desaparece del interior de un apartamento cerrado». Una locura onírica de alta velocidad con escenas eróticas y gore injustificadas, que al principio llama la atención, pero que en su conjunto no consigue enganchar. Las escenas que desarrollan el misterio de la trama conforman un cortometraje de 10 minutos con estilo formal. (08.04.2019)

Una secuencia de escenas audiovisuales montadas al azar que el dúo de directores quería filmar. La película asalta literalmente los sentidos del espectador con sus bellos sonidos y sus elaboradas imágenes, pero si alguien espera un argumento igual de elaborado que el de El extraño color de las lágrimas de tu cuerpo, le espera una decepción: aquí no se puede hablar de argumento ni trama. Es una película en la que puedo entender los dos extremos de la calificación. Por desgracia, sufrí mucho durante la proyección de medianoche, pasó niervos en mi asiento, cien minutos me parecieron largas horas y en lugar de una experiencia de calidad solo conseguí un fuerte dolor de cabeza. La próxima vez evitaré a Hélène Cattet y Bruno Forzani. [LFS 2019] (06.08.2019)

A film like a Rubik’s Cube composed of giallo ornaments which, however, viewers are not supposed to piece together, but instead only immerse themselves in it and wander in its seams. (04.08.2019)

Behind the painting. When one of the characters drills through a head in an Art Nouveau painting and uncovers a deadly secret behind it, the viewer is forced to go beyond the surface of the film image - the horror genre may be profoundly absurd when it comes to meaning, but it is very close to overcoming the image in terms of techniques and effects. Just like in Amer, perhaps the main unifying element here is the evocation of a material, the physical effect of the image on the viewer, who must not remain only at its visual level. The cutting of the skin, stabbing of flesh, blood-tears-saliva, and the impact of sound and objects into the characters' tissue and the viewer's perception - this is the dialectic of the film and the viewer, which logically connects the incompatible story. In The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, the process by which this is achieved is particularly visible - the physiological effect of the film image always occurs in the (horror) moment of tension, in the suspense of all usual expectations of the ordinary world. Precisely at that moment, there is a screeching sound, stabbing, an attack of the hand or the revelation of an eye, etc. In connection with this, it is necessary to focus on the function of repetition: it is not just about Lynchian repetition on the level of the story, but precisely about the continuous function aimed at suspension - we are always more surprised, more tense, and less certain about what will come, and this feeling is paradoxically strengthened by the procedure when the repetition of plot elements or visual analogies always brings something new at the end. Therefore, the sequence in the middle of the film, serving as a cognitive scheme, is instructive: the main character always wakes up annoyingly to the stabbing sound of the intercom, forced to experience his death in a different way each time in a cutting, stabbing, suffocating, etc., form. (21.10.2015)