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Let the Corpses Tan(Laissez bronzer les cadavres)

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France, Belgium · 2017
1h 32m
Director Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Starring Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Hervé Sogne
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

A gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses and blood.

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Village Voice by April Wolfe

More times than I could count I had no idea what the hell was happening, and also just didn’t care that I didn’t know. Let the Corpses Tan is that strange and beautiful.

50

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani get so lost in their catalogue of fetishes that they lose grasp of the snap and tension that drive even a mediocre heist narrative.

70

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

Let the Corpses Tan — or, to use its even better French title, “Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres” — is a feverish, obsessive act of cinematic rehabilitation, a shoot-’em-up conceived in tribute to a peculiar strain of blood-spattered B-movies from the 1960s and ’70s.

75

The A.V. Club by Katie Rife

Like "Amer" and "The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears," Let The Corpses Tan is fetishistic, kaleidoscopic, and obsessed with the intersection between sex and death.

70

We Got This Covered by Matt Donato

Let The Corpses Tan is a stunning display of visual seduction and slaughter-first gunplay, if not somewhat distracted by a skeletal script that’s been stripped of all meatiness.

60

The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young

Indeed, the picture works best when it eschews dialogue and plot altogether and the lush musical elements combine with the intense hues of Manu Dacosse's 16mm-shot visuals to stimulatingly trippy effect.

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