"It is false to say that the screen is incapable of putting us ‘in the presence of’ the actor," the great French philosopher André Bazin wrote in 1967 . "It does so in the same way as a mirror — one must agree that the mirror relays the presence of the person reflected in it - but it is a mirror with a delayed reflection, the tin foil of which retains the image."

Bazin was concerned about the crucial differences between theater and film and between fiction and reality, and so it seems, are the Belgian filmmakers Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet. With Reflection in a Dead Diamond , which continues their experimentation in genre pastiche, the two examine, in a hyper-focused, often surrealist manner, the ever-expanding zeitgeist of the James Bond franchise . Through John Diman (Yannick

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