AMC Networks’ Shudder has bought “Reflection in a Dead Diamond,” Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s supernatural crime film, ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Shudder acquisition deal covers North America, the U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with plans to release the film exclusively on the streamer in 2025.
“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” takes place following the disappearance of a mysterious woman, as a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur gets “confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide,” reads the synopsis.
The film stars Golden Globe-winning Italian actor Fabio Testi (“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”), Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria De Medeiros, Céline Camara and introduces newcomer Thi Mai Nguyen.
“Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani are simply two of the greatest genre filmmakers in the world. Each film, an event,” said Shudder’s VP of programming Samuel Zimmerman, who negotiated the deal with Giulia Casavecchia for True Colours on behalf of the filmmakers. The exec said “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.”
A Brussels-based duo, Cattet and Forzani previously directed critically acclaimed feature films, including “Amer” in 2009 and “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” which premiered in Locarno in 2013. They also took part in the American anthology film, “ABC’s of Death.”
“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” marks the iconoclastic pair’s follow up to “Let the Corpses Tan” which came in 2017 and premiered at Locarno.
“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” is a co-production between Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and France, and is produced by Pierre Foulon at Kozak.
Shudder’s library of European genre movies include Coralie Fargeat’s “Revenge,” as well as Christian Tafdrup’s “Speak No Evil.”
