Wild Promo Trailer for ‘Reflection in a Useless Diamond’ French Fantasy
by Alex Billington
March 14, 2025
Supply: YouTube
đź’Ž Cineart has revealed the primary trailer for a loopy trippy, avant garde movie from France titled Reflection in a Useless Diamond, the newest from filmmaking duo HĂ©lène Cattet & Bruno Forzani. This not too long ago premiered on the 2025 Berlin Movie Pageant within the Primary Competitors. It is the newest 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 CĂ´te 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 happening – mysterious girls clad in all black leather-based, diamond thieves, a number of stunning photographs of the Mediterranean, a lady brandishing a really good sword, and way more. Starring Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, and Thi Mai. There isn’t any dialogue on this trailer so no worries, it is all in regards to the visuals anyway. Is that this a basic case of artwork home fashion over substance or is there one thing extra right here? Critiques clarify it is not 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 id, reminiscence, and sanity.” Hmm okay.
This is the primary promo trailer for Cattet & Forzani’s movie Reflection in a Useless Diamond, from YouTube:
Unique synopsis through Berlinale: “John is 70 years previous and lives in solitary luxurious in a grand lodge on the CĂ´te d’Azur. He turns into intrigued by the girl within the room subsequent door who reminds him of his wild years on the Riviera within the Sixties, again when he was a debonair worldwide spy in a world brimming with peril and promise. However when the girl 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 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 tough to separate. Are his previous 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 gorgeous and harmful lure of escapist cinema itself?” What a query…
Reflection in a Useless Diamond, initially often called Reflet dans un diamant mort in French, is written and directed by the French artists / indie filmmaking duo HĂ©lène 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 number of quick movies and different initiatives. Produced by Pierre Foulon. This not too long ago premiered on the 2025 Berlin Movie Pageant earlier this yr enjoying within the Primary Competitors, and can present up at different festivals. It is at present 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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