Review: The bloody western 'Let the Corpses Tan' gives European B-movies a splattery salute
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 04, 2018
3 minutes
"Let the Corpses Tan" - or, to use its even better French title, "Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres" - is a feverish, obsessive act of cinematic rehabilitation, a shoot-'em-up conceived in tribute to a peculiar strain of blood-spattered B-movies from the 1960s and '70s.
Adapted from a 1971 crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jean-Pierre Bastid, it's a gorgeous, nasty valentine to a bygone era of European crime thrillers and westerns, set over the course of a trigger-happy day
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