Giallo spotlight: "The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears"

Movie Spotlight: The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013), directed by husband & wife filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, is about a man who returns home to find his wife missing. As he searches their labyrinthine Brussels apartment building, he’s drawn into a maze of fragmented memories, voyeuristic encounters, and unsettling stories from the building’s other residents. The deeper he goes, the more the investigation dissolves into a hallucinatory swirl of desire, violence, and identity, where the line between what’s real and what’s imagined becomes impossible to hold onto. It’s less a mystery you “solve” and more a sensory descent — a kaleidoscope of color, sound, and nightmare logic. Even though it’s a 2013 Belgian film, it’s one of the most deliberate, full‑throttle homages to giallo ever made. *The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears* is a modern, hallucinatory riff on the giallo tradition, taking the genre’s fascination with desire, memory, and violence and pushing it into a fully sensory, dream‑logic experience. Rather than following a conventional mystery structure, the film uses the disappearance of a man’s wife as a doorway into a shifting maze of color, sound, and fragmented perspectives that echo the bold stylistic signatures of Argento and Bava. This film is being included in the giallo discussion group as it shows how the genre’s visual and thematic language can be reinterpreted in contemporary cinema—less as a whodunit and more as an immersive, expressionistic descent into the subconscious. Tips: 1. Haven't seen the movie before? You're in for a treat - try to watch the movie sometime before we meet (Streaming Options include Amazon Prime and AppleTV.) Just like a book club we don't watch the movie at our meetup, just discuss it. You don't have to watch the movie to join us, but it'll be more fun if you can. 2. I usually take a…