Hélène Cattet, born in 1976 in
Paris, and Bruno Forzani, born in the same year in
Menton, France, met in
Brussels in 1997 and moved there. After developing an interest in filmmaking, the couple directed a number self-produced short films, gaining critical attention in the independent festival circuit. Cattet and Forzani made their full-length debut in 2009 with
Amer, an international coproduction between France and Belgium that was described as a
postmodern homage to
giallo films. The film received general acclaim from critics and earned the couple a
Magritte Award nomination in the category of
Best Film. Cattet and Forzani then directed ''
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears'' (2013), a thriller film starring
Klaus Tange as a man who becomes entangled in a complicated web of lies and murder while seeking the whereabouts of his missing wife. The film polarized critics when it premiered at the
2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Nicholas Bell from
IndieWire calling it "one of the most cinematically extravagant explorations of the gaudy and grotesque ever committed to film". Their next film,
Let the Corpses Tan (2017), is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by
Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid. It revolves around a gang of thieves who arrive at the home of an artist who is caught in a love triangle. The film received eight nominations at the
9th Magritte Awards, including
Best Film and
Best Director for Cattet and Forzani, winning three. == Filmography ==