Film Review – Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are French filmmakers who specialize in highly visual moviegoing experiences that have extraordinarily little interest in traditional storytelling structure. They made a splash with 2013’s “The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears,” and developed their approach for 2017’s “Let the Corpses Tan.” The duo make specialized viewing events, focusing on the specifics of textures and the amorphous ways of memory, and they aren’t giving up their creative obsessions in “Reflection in a Dead Diamond,” returning to screen mystery and menace with renewed vigor. It’s a secret agent tale in some ways, but the picture isn’t concerned with solving dramatic puzzles. It’s another immersion into fetishized moviemaking for the duo, keeping Cattet and Forzani dedicated to manufacturing another surreal presentation of madness and murder, literally taking the feature one frame at a time for many sections of the offering. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com