Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • France • 2017
Luce is a conceptual artist who lives and paints in a remote village overlooking the sun-drenched Mediterranean. Alongside her motley crew of family and admirers, she also has guests are arriving this week, strangers meant to bring her inspiration—unbeknownst to her, they are violent criminals who have just stolen over 250kg of gold. Luce's commune seems like the perfect hideout, until two police officers arrive on motorcycle to investigate.
Based on a classic pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and featuring a score of vintage Ennio Morricone, Let the Corpses Tan is sensual, exhilarating cinematic fever dream. The third feature from cult filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears) premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and IndieLisboa.
Pierre Salvadori • France • 2018
Yvonne is a police officer in Marseille. She is also the widow of Santi, a local hero recently memorialized by a statue in the town square. Only Santi wasn't as virtuous...
Jess Franco • Spain-Autralia-France • 1964 • Perverse eroticism, science fiction, smoky jazz.
The follow-up to Franco's career-launching film The Awful Dr. Orloff, Dr. Orloff's Monster is a modern gothic thriller, injected with moments of perverse eroticism, science fiction, and smoky jazz. When...
Jess Franco • Spain • 1973 • An erotic, dreamlike husband-and-wife collaboration.
Franco’s highest-regarded collaboration with his wife, Lina Romay, Female Vampire follows the mysterious Countess Irina Karlstein, a beautiful vampiress who feeds on victims at their moments of sexual climax. Becau...
