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Flesh Color (1978)

Flesh Color poster
Original title
Couleur chair
Directed by
François Weyergans
Genre
documentary film, musical film
Country
France, Belgium
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary film that follows a band called Flesh Colour in Brussels. The movie mixes music and performance into a cinematic portrait.

experimentalunconventionalmusic-centeredplayfulnostalgicwhimsicalrawatmospheric

What happens

Flesh Color (French: Couleur Chair) is a 35 mm film by François Weyergans (Prix Goncourt 2005). Weyergans is one of the forty members known as immortals of the French Academy (L'Académie française). It features a band called Flesh Colour formed in 1976 in Brussels-Capital. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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