let the corpses tan

Celebrated French film duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are coming packed with praise for their latest Super 16mm offering, Let The Bodies Tan, since premiering for the festival crowd at Toronto last year. Rave reviews are aplenty for the adaptation of the 1971 novel from Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid and with a New York and Los Angeles rollout set for August 31 prior to a wider select release, Kino Lorber have since graced netizens and cinephiles with a rousing official trailer that absolutely chills and thrills. Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and creeping shadows of their giallo-worshiping first two films (Amer, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) for blistering sun, creaking leather and raining bullets in this glorious homage to 1970s Italian crime films. After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote […]

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