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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that they have acquired the rights to acclaimed filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (REFLET DANS UN DIAMANT MORT) ahead of its world premiere at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.
The film stars Golden Globe-winning Italian actor Fabio Testi (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria De Medeiros, Céline Camara and introduces newcomer Thi Mai Nguyen. The rights will cover North America, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with plans to release the film exclusively on the streamer in 2025.
In REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, when the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
“Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani are simply two of the greatest genre filmmakers in the world. Each film, an event,” said Shudder’s Vice President of Programming Samuel Zimmerman. “REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND furthers their spectacular giallo and Eurothriller-inspired visions into newly exhilarating territory. This is a must-see spectacle, and Shudder is wildly excited to release it.”
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani live in Brussels and have been working together since 2000. After writing and directing several self-produced shorts, they moved on to feature films with Amer in 2009 and L'Etrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps (The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears) which premiered in Locarno in 2013. That year they also took part in the American anthology film the ABC's of Death. In 2017, they shot Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres (Let the Corpses Tan) which premiered in Locarno. REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND is their fourth feature film.
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND is a co-production of Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and France, and is produced by Pierre Foulon for KOZAK. The deal was negotiated by Sam Zimmerman on behalf of Shudder and Giulia Casavecchia for True Colours on behalf of the filmmakers.
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