Let the Corpses Tan (2017)

• Year: 2017
• Released: 31 Aug 2018
• Country: Belgium, France
• Adwords: 4 wins & 9 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5827212/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/let_the_corpses_tan
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/let-the-corpses-tan
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: French
• MPA Rating: Unrated
• Genre: Thriller
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Jean-Patrick Manchette
• Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
• Cast: Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin
• Keywords: woman director, based on novel or book, murder, surrealism, heist,

	6.2/10
	62/100
	74% – Critics
	61% – Audience

Let the Corpses Tan Storyline

With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test. This used to be a peaceful place, but now, only bullets have the final say. Who shall live, and who shall die?

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Let the Corpses Tan Movie Reviews

Can you get a tan from exposure to boredom?…

I sat down to watch the 2017 French movie “Laissez bronzer les cadavres” (aka “Let the Corpses Tan”) without having heard about it. But I read the synopsis and I must admit that it sounded like this movie from writers and directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani could be interesting.

But it turned out that it wasn’t…

This movie was strange. From the way the movie was shot, which was a very confusing and constant jumping back and forth between different angles and view points from the different characters, to a very messy and entangled storyline that made little or no sense, to the whole aspect of not knowing what was actually going on.

Yeah, directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani just went overboard with the avantgarde approach to the movie, and it resulted in a bizarre mess of a movie that made no sense and provided no entertainment. I actually gave up on the movie about halfway through. At that point I just couldn’t take it anymore, as nothing in the movie felt entertaining, and the fact that nothing felt complete or wholehearted in the movie just dragged it even further down.

Now, I am sure that the actors and actresses were putting on good enough acting performances, though there wasn’t much of any drama acting or anything, it was mostly just people running to and from and shooting randomly. Oh, and I nearly forgot, the characters in the movie were about as interesting a grains of sand.

Nay, this movie was a massive swing and a miss from writers and directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, and I was more than disappointed with what the movie turned out to be, because the synopsis made it could like it had potential for being a watchable movie.

The movie’s cover was rather interesting and very much something that I hadn’t seen presented in such a manner on a movie cover before. But the movie itself, well, you get where I’m going here.

My rating of “Let the Corpses Tan” lands on a three out of ten stars, based mostly upon the production value of the movie. In terms of entertainment, then “Let the Corpses Tan” failed horribly.

Stylish

It’s not the first movie I’ve seen from the two filmmaker, who are also together privately. But it seemed like this was going to be the one that was “normal” … made sense somehow. And I guess you can follow this better than the others, but if you are not prepared for the weird and strange … you might have issues with the movie.

Because while it is quite coherent, it does have elements in it, that are not or can not be considered as anything in the realm of normal or real. But it’s their style – you’ll either cherish and love it or are annoyed and bewildered by it. I’m intrigued by it to say the least. And while I rated it slightly lower than the previous effort, it does not mean I#m getting fed up with the style – because remember: it is all about the stlye!

Stay out of my head!

The directors of Let The Corpses Tan — Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani — are more preoccupied with arty shots, clever editing, moments of surreality, and fancy camerawork than in telling a decent story. It’s as though the film-makers crawled inside my head, discovered everything I hate about arthouse cinema, and put it all into this one movie. At times, the pretentiousness is so extreme that it feels like a pastiche of arthouse, although I’m fairly certain that this is not the case: no-one in their right mind would waste the time, money and effort to do that.

At the core of the film is a classic ‘heist gone wrong’ scenario, a group of armed robbers making their way to a remote hideout after stealing a fortune in gold bullion, where greed, betrayal and a stubborn cop causes problems. Many a great film has been made with similar material, but Cattet and Forzani’s showy treatment and extremely offbeat visuals make this a totally confusing chore from start to finish. There are lots of close-ups of eyes and gun barrels, annoying out of sequence scenes and multiple different viewpoints of the same action, plus tons of bizarre moments that are never explained: ants crawling on an aerial photo of the hideout, a silhouetted naked woman who pees on a man’s head, a lady having her dress machine-gunned off, and gold that turns into liquid when hit by bullets. The last half an hour or so consists of choppily edited gunfire, all shot so as to make it impossible to work out who is firing at who.

1/10. Hifalutin drivel of the worst kind.