Reflection in a Dead Diamond

2025 [FRENCH]

Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 84% · 45 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84%
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1866 1.9K

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Barbara Hellemans Photo
Barbara Hellemans as Serpentik
Nilton Martins Photo
Nilton Martins as
Koen De Bouw Photo
Koen De Bouw as Markus Strand
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Sophie Mousel as
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802.15 MB
1280*536
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 23
1.61 GB
1920*804
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 77

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jared-25331 6 / 10

That movie was certainly something.

Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) is a spy thriller movie that follows a retired spy who suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes and it was very strange.Positives for Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025): The movie is certainly unique with the story. The acting from the cast is good enough. The action is directed well enough with the fight choreography. The movie is short and perfect for the story. And finally, this is the type of movie that will become a cult classic.Negatives for Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025): This movie is strange with the execution and imagery. I'll give credit to the filmmakers for going strange with the story even if it didn't work for me. And finally, the movie was too confusing for me to follow.Overall, Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) is the strangest and most ambitious movie I've seen in the year 2025 and it's a movie I respect more than I love and I am happy for everyone who loves this movie.
Reviewed by massimo_saidel 7 / 10

An absolute fan while growing up in Italy of low budget, scary and extremely stylized GIALLO thrillers (Dario Argento's "Profondo Rosso" & "Suspiria"; Sergio Martino; Lucio Fulci & co), I didn't know this crafty and passionate french film couple, Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet, entirely devoted to directing homages of the Genre. Their last opus in competition in Berlin and winner at Tribeca 2025, is a mezmerizing and unexpected achievement worth discovering. It made me look up their other gem "The Strange Color of your Body's Tears" (2013, released in the US), with 2 more pics to watch (from 2009 & 2017).The film is an original cocktail of spy, suspense, slasher, romance and kinetic visuals, at times akin to experimental cinema and visual art.The dosage is high on shiny colours, néo-pop atmospheres, shards, skin masks, split screens and carefully researched vintage italian musical hits. The special FX (by Brussel's Studio l'Equipe) are surprisingly good, especially when it comes to wounds and latex: they don't reek of CGI and deserve a European Film Award next year. Like the overall unknown cast including belgian Yannick Renier (the older brother of french star Jérémie Renier), and 1960's comeback hero FABIO TESTI (the first "Django") who once reined over B-Movies and spaghetti westerns together with Franco Nero and Giuliano Gemma. The speedy grand finale (no spoilers!) still allows the older and elegant Testi (born in 1941) an apt melancholy ending, and a frameshot possibly inspired by...Visconti's "Death in Venice", just to give another idea of how many ideas and ecclectic references our 2 happy helmers can cram in 1hour and 27 minutes.Reason why I don't understand the bored or dismissive other User's reviews (Wes Anderson's latest miss, "The Phoenician Scheme", has a far more convoluted and tedious plot); surely all the film and key comix references (well known by Q. Tarantino) are exquisitely euro~trash: mainly DIABOLIK, the still going strong comic book based on the ruthless masked killer-robber etched in 1962 by the "in" Giussani sisters of Milan, and made into 3 Blah italo film-sequels by the unininspired Manetti Brothers (2019-22). And even avoiding intellectualizing while reviewing, "REFLECTIONS IN A DEAD DIAMOND" is just that: as much flash and action as a reflection on time and memory failing us, fading from our life, the real one and the one we share on screen.(PS: to sum the landmarks of the genre & its current heirs: "Neo-Giallo: A Beginner's Guide", article by Isaac Feldberg in PASTE Magazine & online/14-9-2021)
Reviewed by rns-23230 7 / 10

Hold on it's going to be a wild ride !

Be prepared to be assaulted with imaginary and editing beyond your imagination.You have stepped into a world of cinema for cinemas sake and you're going to love it. Weather you get it or understand it that's irrelevant watch you will get is 90 mins of pure entertainment.I can begin to explain this film but let it be said if you have ever sat at home watching old 60 kitch spy movies or euro thrillers and wished they still made them, well here you go served up with a splash of Dario Argento ,mario brava or and number of euro trash from that period and then sprinkle just a touch of tarintino and there you have it.Visually this movie rocks and the music pulses.It's a mind bender but if you get on board early and just go with it you will be in for a fun ride.Performances were on point for this type of film and every one look glamorous. I had the pleasure of seeing it in cinema as a limited release at my local Arthouse check it out if your in the mood I was and it was a great ride not perfect by any means but a lot better than another sequel that tells the same old story.Will it hold up on steaming maybe and it is a movie you have to see twice.
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