Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani

Cast: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi-Mai Nguyen

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a 2025 action-thriller and science fiction mystery film co-directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, set against the sun-drenched glamour of the French Riviera, where a retired spy's quiet retirement is shattered by a vanishing neighbor and the ghosts of a dangerous past.

What is Reflection in a Dead Diamond about?

A suave ex-intelligence operative in his seventies has settled into a life of careful anonymity at an opulent Côte d'Azur hotel. His days are governed by routine and discretion — until the woman occupying the adjacent room simply ceases to exist. Her sudden disappearance cracks open a sealed vault of memory: long-buried missions, shadowy entanglements, and faces he believed time had erased. As he probes what happened to her, the boundary between recollection and present danger becomes dangerously permeable. The film layers psychological tension with vivid, style-saturated imagery, keeping the audience uncertain whether the threat is external or internal to a mind shaped by decades of duplicity.

Cast & crew

The film pairs veteran Italian actor Fabio Testi with Belgian performers Yannick Renier and Koen De Bouw, while Portuguese legend Maria de Medeiros brings her distinctive, mercurial presence to the ensemble. Thi-Mai Nguyen, Céline Camara, Kézia Quental, and Manon Beuchot round out a multilingual cast that mirrors the film's pan-European production.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking viewers and the Iranian diaspora, Reflection in a Dead Diamond offers the particular pleasure of a European genre film that prizes style, psychological weight, and moral ambiguity over spectacle. Cattet and Forzani are known for hyper-sensory visual storytelling, and this spy-inflected mystery channels that approach into a story about identity, memory, and the cost of a life lived in the shadows — themes that resonate strongly with audiences who understand displacement and reinvention. The film is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose their preferred experience.

Where & how to watch

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is available on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitles. You can watch on any web browser, smart TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.