![]() Instead of telling a story, the only thing Cattet and Forzani are interested in is flash. Guns and gold, that’s all you need to know. Amer had almost no dialogue at all, and frankly they could have done the same here and it wouldn’t have made any difference. But I don’t think anyone who sees this movie - and virtually nobody who has commented on it - gives a damn about the story. It’s a story that goes back at least as far as Chaucer. The bullets start to fly and nearly everyone ends up dead. A pair of cops come calling and the thieves fall out. Also staying at the villa are some decadent artist types. A gang of thieves steals a truckload of gold bars and hides out in an abandoned (and ruined) stone villa overlooking the Mediterranean. Even in the final act, which takes place in darkness, we can still figure out what’s happening. Here, because there’s a source they were working from, it’s at least easier to understand what’s going on. The problem with Amer, or the main problem I had with it, is that it didn’t add up and was hard to follow. I’d rate this movie slightly higher than Amer. And I have to stop here and say that I do hate dropping Tarantino’s name into the mix so often, but let’s face it: his knowing, self-referential, retro, playful, film-for-film’s sake aesthetic is still with us. Instead of gialli, however, it’s sending up the neo-noir gangster as defined by Quentin Tarantino. ![]() ![]() As it turns out - and I did not know this at the time - it was directed by the same husband-and-wife team that directed Amer, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. About two minutes in I was feeling a lot of Sergio Leone, but even more than that I was thinking to myself how much it felt like a movie I’d seen a couple of years ago called Amer. I watched this movie on a whim, mainly because I loved the title (which is a literal translation of the novel it’s based on, Laissez bronzer les Cadavres by Jean-Patrick Manchette). ![]() "Les nommés aux Magritte 2019 sont connus". Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. " 'Let The Corpses Tan': Locarno Review". ^ "Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres!) (2018)".^ "Laissez bronzer les cadavres!" (in French)."Belgium's Magritte Awards: 'Our Struggles' Takes Top Prize". ^ Richford, Richford (2 February 2019).Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. " 'Let the Corpses Tan' ('Laissez bronzer les cadavres'): Film Review : Locarno 2017". ^ a b c d Young, Neil (5 August 2017).^ a b "Let the Corpses Tan (2017) box office".Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Archived from the original on 8 June 2018. 71st Locarno Festival Program & Selections. ^ a b c "Laissez bronzer les cadavres".Yves Bemelmans, Dan Bruylandt, Olivier Thys, Benoit Biral Let the Corpses Tan grossed $93,409 at the box office. After a while, though, it does start to ring hollow." Box office Allan Hunter of Screen Daily shared similar ideas, opining that the film had "style to burn" and that it was a "a film of almost delirious excess" and that noted that if it mattered if the audience doesn't care for any of the characters, finding it a "intoxicating aspect of watching a team so in single-minded and in control of their filmmaking technique. Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as "borderline incoherent" stating that after all the double and triple crosses in the film, it was nearly impossible to follow without knowledge of the source material. ![]() On Metacritic it has a score of 62% based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 76%, based on 71 reviews with an average rating of 6.57/10. It was released in France on 2017 October 18 and in Belgium on 10 January 2018 by Anonymes Films. The film received its North American Premiere at the Midnight Madness screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. Let the Corpses Tan premiered at the Locarno Film Festival on 4 August 2017. Let the Corpses Tan was predominantly shot in Corsica. Dorylia Calmel as Mélanie, Bernier's wife.Stéphane Ferrara as Rhino, the leader of the gang.Let the Corpses Tan received eight nominations at the 9th Magritte Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Cattet and Forzani, winning three. The scenario quickly escalates into a day long gun fight between police and robbers. The film involves a gang of thieves who obtain 250 kg of stolen gold who arrive at the home of an artist who is caught in a love triangle. The film is based on the novel Laissez bronzer les cadavres by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid. Let the Corpses Tan ( French: Laissez bronzer les cadavres) is a 2017 neo-Western crime film directed and written by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. ![]()
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