Marc Barbé

October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as ‘retribution’.

Private detective Gabriel Laurens is forced to face the ghosts of his past when his niece recruits him to investigate her father’s suspicious death.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani turn their genre-scrambling attention to European crime films of the 1970s with this kinetic brain-melter. Fixing Sergio Leone in its stylistic crosshairs, Let the Corpses Tan reduces plot to essentials, all the better to let rip with a psychedelic formal assault.