During a Mediterranean summer, Rhino and his gang steal a cache of gold and hide in an abandoned hamlet occupied by a woman seeking inspiration. However, surprise guests and two cops disrupt their plan, turning the once-heavenly retreat of wild happenings into a gruesome battlefield.

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.