The violence is never gratuitous. It is always conscious, self-reflexive and painted in an artistic, meticulously curated fashion, the way a designer would decide the order and manner their dresses would be presented down a runway...

| Jan 9, 2024

Episode 9: Phantasmagoria

| Original Score: 60/100 | Aug 28, 2021

It's a rich tapestry of beautifully horrific visuals, intricate production design, and jarring sound design that cohesively deliver an experience that is the purest example of cinema as art as I have ever seen it.

| May 29, 2020

If you give into its lusty charms, you won't be disappointed in its endless delights, surpassing the intensity of many titles it owes its existence to.

| Aug 30, 2019

An aimless doodle where film school affectations are mistaken for actual depth, a modern day piece of avant-garde standing in the shadow of masters.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 7, 2019

The film could certainly stand to be a good ten minutes shorter ... Nevertheless, [it] is a singular experience for lovers of inventive genre cinema.

| Jul 24, 2019

The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears demands we engage with film in a very different way than we are used to ... This is a movie to feel ... through, to let our senses dominate the experience. The pleasure is in the untethering.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 25, 2018

Neither director is known for cohesive plots, but the marriage of their styles is quite interesting.

| Aug 21, 2018

While rich with image, the film's plot seems to be chasing its own tail and the result is more boring than tense.

| Dec 31, 2017

The result is a film that plays more like a work of art than a horror film or a thriller, which is its biggest strength-and weakness.

| Aug 22, 2017

[It] works just as well for the uninitiated, as many of the directing duo's stylish editing patterns play with perceptions not just of giallo, but cinema as a whole.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 20, 2016

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.

| Sep 18, 2014

I found a few lines and images in the second half intellectually stimulating, but it wasn't enough. "Strange Color" exploited little but my patience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2014

A difficult to decipher whodunit guaranteed to have you still scratching your head even after its confounding resolution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2014

Only appreciable as pure cinematic craftsmanship, and it's a gorgeous movie, teeming with inventive compositions and wild lighting.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2014

The film rarely maintains an image for more than a few seconds. Everything must be rapid, colorful and artsy, but it is an intellectual sham.

| Aug 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.

| Aug 28, 2014

What "The Strange Color" lacks is the heart that separates a good film from a great one.

| Aug 28, 2014

The filmmakers' command of the form extends to intentionally dopey performances and a total rejection of plot, all of which gets tiresome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2014