Wild Promo Trailer for ‘Reflection in a Lifeless Diamond’ French Fantasy
by Alex Billington
March 14, 2025
Supply: YouTube
💎 Cineart has revealed the primary trailer for a loopy trippy, avant garde movie from France titled Reflection in a Lifeless Diamond, the most recent from filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani. This just lately premiered on the 2025 Berlin Movie Pageant within the Principal Competitors. It is the most recent from the filmmakers who additionally made The Unusual Colour of Your Physique’s Tears and Let the Corpses Tan, for anybody into wacky, summary cinema. Filmed on the Côte d’Azur in France, a retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes. It is a peculiar, twisted, heady movie that includes all types of issues occurring – mysterious girls clad in all black leather-based, diamond thieves, a lot of lovely pictures of the Mediterranean, a girl brandishing a really good sword, and way more. Starring Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, and Thi Mai. There is not any dialogue on this trailer so no worries, it is all in regards to the visuals anyway. Is that this a traditional case of artwork home model over substance or is there one thing extra right here? Critiques clarify it isn’t in regards to the story, it is “an homage to and a deconstruction of style, layering its self-reflexive and meta-textual dimensions to look at the fluidity of identification, reminiscence, and sanity.” Hmm okay.
Here is the primary promo trailer for Cattet & Forzani’s movie Reflection in a Lifeless Diamond, from YouTube:
Unique synopsis by way of Berlinale: “John is 70 years outdated and lives in solitary luxurious in a grand resort on the Côte d’Azur. He turns into intrigued by the lady within the room subsequent door who reminds him of his wild years on the Riviera within the Nineteen Sixties, again when he was a debonair worldwide spy in a world brimming with peril and promise. However when the lady mysteriously disappears, John is beset by flashbacks – or maybe fantasies – of his glamorous and grotesque previous, and the alluring girls and dastardly villains who lived and died there. With imagery that pays affectionate homage to the Nineteen Sixties Eurospy style and is tinged with playful gore, John’s actuality turns into fragmented as he seeks to unravel the puzzle of his previous. Reminiscence, insanity and moviemaking grow to be more and more troublesome to separate. Are his outdated enemies again to wreak havoc on his idyllic life? Are there but extra conspiracies and treacheries ready to be unmasked? Or has he merely been bewitched by the attractive and harmful lure of escapist cinema itself?” What a query…
Reflection in a Lifeless Diamond, initially generally known as Reflet dans un diamant mort in French, is written and directed by the French artists / indie filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, each administrators of the movies Amer, The Unusual Colour of Your Physique’s Tears, and Let the Corpses Tan beforehand, plus a lot of quick movies and different tasks. Produced by Pierre Foulon. This just lately premiered on the 2025 Berlin Movie Pageant earlier this yr taking part in within the Principal Competitors, and can present up at different festivals. It is at the moment set for launch in France beginning July 2025 this summer time. No US launch date is ready – keep tuned for updates.
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