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Reflection in a Dead Diamond

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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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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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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. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
Isaac Feldberg RogerEbert.com Dec 5
3/4
This is a hypnotic, invigorating film, and a step up for the duo—much like the diamonds that shimmer so seductively through their frames, it has a cold, bright, gem-like brilliance. Go to Full Review
Ben Miller InSession Film 5d
B
Reflection in a Dead Diamond might be confusing and alienating, but if you let the iconography and intrigue take you in, you might find yourself overwhelmed and enhanced by the experience. Go to Full Review
Stephen Silver The SS Ben Hecht Dec 13
It’s a tribute to the early Bond films, and also to the movies in the ’60s and ‘70s that ripped off the Bond films. The title even sounds like a 007 title. Go to Full Review
Nadine Whitney The Curb Dec 10
A wonderful paean to 1960’s eurospy thrillers and exploitation films where desire, delusion, and delirium overtake the psych… replete with stylised visceral violence, unforgettably stunning imagery, and a sense of the phantasms of a fantasy world. Go to Full Review
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Craig W. @CJWolfe27 2d An enjoyable movie with great camera work See more Luis C @willowking 4d A fever dream that feels like it’s moving at 1000 frames per second. Just breathtaking. See more Cyns Corner 6d 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 See more Lucifer M Dec 11 A beautiful homage to 60s-70s spy films with an avant-garde, grindhouse twist that’ll have any cinephile gushing over it. Lines are blurred between what is memory, what is real and what is fiction. With phenomenal cinematography, slick editing and a gorgeously talented cast, I simply don’t have anything negative to say about this great piece of art. It’s been a few days since I’ve watched it and I’m still pondering on this film. I just wish films like this had more recognition See more B P Dec 5 Pulp Meets High Art in Kaleidoscopic Eurospy Throwback See more DanTheMan 2 Nov 30 A thrillingly kaleidoscopic and note-perfect pastiche of the Eurospy capers of yesteryear, Reflection in a Dead Diamond offers frenetic spectacle for the discerning genre fan. Yet for all its flash, there is a haunted story simmering beneath its reflective surfaces, taunting us with the possibility of a narrative, while constantly refusing to let a conventional story materialise, instead bombarding us with an ever-impressive montage of brutally surreal and ambitious audiovisual spectacle that fuses Eurotrash flesh onto giallo bones. Waves crash, and the drinks fizz. Diamonds, leather and lashings abound. Directors Cattet and Forzani plunge us into an experiential world that becomes increasingly fragmented as the boundary between fiction and reality blurs throughout the film's rapid-fire pacing and incredibly colourful design. Infused with just the right amount of playful gore, wasting not a single second throughout its expansive reshaping of perception, Reflection in a Dead Diamond offers an array of dizzying stylistic flourishes that make it a visually intoxicating, deliriously entertaining and drop-dead-gorgeous adventure, one that is worth its weight in diamonds. See more Read all reviews
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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