Ilove filmmakers who not only have a lane and stick to that lane, but find new and inventive ways to breathe life into that lane. Belgian writer-directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani shattered my cineaste brain at a film festival in 2013 with their giallo pastiche, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears , a sensual and surreal series of paranoia, violence, and nudity. The pair’s love for Italian cult cinema from the ’60s and ’70s plus their fascination with pop-art stylings and loud, squeaky leather made them a must-watch pair for me. 2017’s Let the Corpses Tan took that mentality to the desert for a crime film with Spaghetti western aspirations. Their latest, Reflection in a Dead Diamond , sets their sights on spy capers, and it’s another glorious, hallucinatory trip.

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