This one hasn't been reviewed by any IMDB members, and there aren't even any outside reviews of it, so you're gonna nave to listen to me, whether you like it or not!
The filmmaker seemed to be trying to make it hard to understand what was going on plot-wise, and three different languages were used, with sub-titles for only German and Portuguese, so you're going to have to turn the volume up really loud to understand Sylvie Testud's lousy English, and the same goes for the Portuguese actor playing the detective.
The basic plot involved a detective trying to solve the case of a man who was murdered on the beach, after his six year-old daughter casually points out that they just found a dead man's body right on the beach where they were having lunch together.
He casually tells her to have some more ice cream, while he tries to find out what is going on. That's pretty much the tone throughout the film; everybody is very casual about everything.
*****Spoilers It turns out that Sylvie Testud was getting revenge for a GF of her's that was filmed having sex with the dead guy on the beach, and a famous soccer player, who later murdered her, although the body was never found. Most of the story is told through two camcorder tapes, because Sylvie Testud is not very cooperative with the detective. In one scene, she almost throws him off a cliff on the beach, because she's so sick of his prying questions! In another scene, the detective's ex wife beats the crap out of him, after he sneaked into her house, where she was busy having sex with the maid... It's never proven that Testud actually committed either murder; the detective just makes inferences that Testud refuses to agree to. It's never established what relationship Testud's friend was to her, although there's a brief scene on the tape of the two of them playing violin together in some type of school string ensemble. It's not even proven that the guy on the beach and the soccer player murdered Testud's friend, because her body was never found. It's also not clear what the motive was behind the 'game' the two men were playing with Sohie's GF, and then Sophie. Sophie started screaming to the detective that the dead German guy on the beach liked to whip her GF, and even his dead dog, but there was no evidence that he did that. Like the title of the review says, 'Murky Mystery'.
*****Spoilers It turns out that Sylvie Testud was getting revenge for a GF of her's that was filmed having sex with the dead guy on the beach, and a famous soccer player, who later murdered her, although the body was never found. Most of the story is told through two camcorder tapes, because Sylvie Testud is not very cooperative with the detective. In one scene, she almost throws him off a cliff on the beach, because she's so sick of his prying questions! In another scene, the detective's ex wife beats the crap out of him, after he sneaked into her house, where she was busy having sex with the maid... It's never proven that Testud actually committed either murder; the detective just makes inferences that Testud refuses to agree to. It's never established what relationship Testud's friend was to her, although there's a brief scene on the tape of the two of them playing violin together in some type of school string ensemble. It's not even proven that the guy on the beach and the soccer player murdered Testud's friend, because her body was never found. It's also not clear what the motive was behind the 'game' the two men were playing with Sohie's GF, and then Sophie. Sophie started screaming to the detective that the dead German guy on the beach liked to whip her GF, and even his dead dog, but there was no evidence that he did that. Like the title of the review says, 'Murky Mystery'.
