22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

Let The Corpses Tan

Belgium, France, 2017: 90 minutes
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Globe Cinema
Thu, Apr 19 9:45 PM Buy

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The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun....and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by an artist in search of inspiration. Unfortunately, surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan, and the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield. LET THE CORPSES TAN is a beautiful, experimental and bold take on the classic pulp crime story from visionary directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (AMER, THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS).

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Locarno Film Festival 2017
Toronto International Film Festival 2017
Fantastic Fest 2017
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018

DIRECTOR'S BIOS
Hélène Cattet was born in Paris, and has been making films with her husband, Bruno Forzani, since the early 2000s. Her shorts as co-director include CHAMBRE JAUNE, LA FIN DE NOTRE AMOUR, SANTOS PALACE, and a segment in the horror anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH. Their features include AMER and THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS (a CUFF 2013 selection).

DIRECTOR'S BIOS
Bruno Forzani was born in Menton, France, and has been making films with his wife, Hélène Cattet, since the early 2000s. His shorts as co-director include CHAMBRE JAUNE, LA FIN DE NOTRE AMOUR, SANTOS PALACE, and a segment in the horror anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH. Their features include AMER and THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS (a CUFF 2013 selection). 

press for Let The Corpses Tan

"Cattet and Forzani shoot it like the nightmare you’d have after watching Mario Bava’s entire filmography in one sitting, with a dollop of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s sexualized weirdness in a recurring fantasy sequence."
- NOW Toronto

details

Adventure / Female Filmmaker / Thriller / Suspense / Crime / Western

French with English subtitles
90 minutes

credits

Directors
Hélène Cattet
Bruno Forzani

Editing
Bernard Beets

Cinematographer
Manu Dacosse

Cast
Elina Löwensohn
Stéphane Ferrara
Bernie Bonvoisin

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