Reflection in a Dead Diamond

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Reflection in a Dead Diamond

2025

1h 27m

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Mystery & Thriller

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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.

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Critics Consensus

A dazzling monument to lurid cinema that gleams with stylistic verve, Reflection in a Dead Diamond might be directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's most cohesive and thrilling genre pastiche yet.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

May 1

4/5

Reflection in a Dead Diamond cares not a jot for the confines of conventional narrative and identification. This is cinema as bombardment, as fetish, as swooning fan collage.

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Dec 8

3.5/5

Cattet and Forzani’s latest reconfigures the 1960s Europsy feature for a kaleidoscopic, violent vision of self-identity and fading memories.

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Dec 5

The energy and style serve as an homage to Euro-spy thrillers of the past, but the technique also accomplishes something that’s been tried multiple times but not quite so well: translating the visual tack -- and smack -- of a graphic novel into cinema.

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Lee Zumpe

Tampa Bay Newspapers

Mar 22

It deconstructs and transmutes a bizarre mélange of genres to spawn a giallo-spattered pulpy arthouse surreality that defies orthodox explanation.

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Jan 27

10/10

It is not just an exercise in style over content, as Cattet and Forzani elevate the spy trappings into a surreal memory spiral that resembles Last Year At Marienbad through a five-foot Graffix bong.

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Liam Maguren

Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

Jan 8

Once you’ve settled into the nostalgia of it all with its prominent film grain, classic score, and swingin’ sixties production, the film contorts those comfy memories with an accelerating descent into cinematic madness.

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MB C

@MB.Cinema Feb 10

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a bold, hypnotic blend of espionage, sci-fi, and existential mystery.....Following an aging spy haunted by fractured memories, the film blurs past and present until reality itself becomes suspect.....Its fragmented, non-linear structure mirrors a mind losing faith in its own recollections.....Rather than answers, the screenplay offers layers of doubt, turning a spy thriller into a meditation on identity and performance.....Stylish cinematography and aggressive editing create a sensory experience that feels lived more than understood.....Challenging and divisive, the film rewards those willing to surrender clarity for atmosphere and meaning.....

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revolver.0 8

@Revolver08 Jan 18

if jodorowsky made a eurospy movie, absolute cinema

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Dave K

@AmongTheDouglasFirs Jan 6

A hell of a trip and one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Imagine if David Lynch and Satoshi Kon had collaborated to make a feature-length, live-action Archer finale in a grindhouse style. Yes, it’s as mad as it sounds, yet incredibly beautiful at the same time. So much more I could say, but wouldn’t want to risk spoiling it. Just go and watch it now.

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Craig W.

@CJWolfe27 Dec 21

An enjoyable movie with great camera work

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Luis C

@willowking Dec 19

A fever dream that feels like it’s moving at 1000 frames per second. Just breathtaking.

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Cyns Corner

@RT39853018 Dec 18

1.5/5.0 STARS - Watched this back in early November. Despite stylish visuals and colorful cinematography, Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a baffling, disjointed spy homage that mistakes confusion for depth. What’s meant to be dazzling comes across as an incoherent kaleidoscope of images, leaving little narrative to latch onto. Video review: https://youtu.be/04PT6CW0waQ

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Producer: Pierre Foulon
Screenwriter: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Kozak Films
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 21, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2025
Runtime: 1h 27m