Spy Tag Archive
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Since 2009 Belgian duo Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani have been crafting exquisite genre love letters. Their brand of eye-candy visuals and intensely sensuous sound design are instantly recognisable, as are the influences they flaunt so proudly. Their first and second features, Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, are odes to Italian Giallo whilst their third, Let the Corpses Tan, is a dive into the world of Spaghetti Westerns. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, their fourth film and first in 8 years, takes on the psychedelic, far-fetched, and fantastical Euro crime […]
Age of Shadows – GFF 2017
Korean director Kim Jee-Woon made a name for himself in horror, with films like A Tale of Two Sisters and gruelling serial killer thriller I Saw the Devil. From there he’s made outlandish Western The Good, the Bad, and The Weird, not to mention reintroduced Schwarzenegger in US mad action caper The Last Stand. Age of Shadows is his latest film and follows the exploits of Korean rebels seeking to overthrow Japanese invaders during the 1920’s After an exhilarating opening the film launches straight into an exhilarating, freight train of espionage. Train […]
