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When the film opens, it tells you that this is the story of a murder that has long gone unsolved in the Alps. By that point onward, it becomes clear this isn’t so much about the mystery behind the murder, but how come closure might not ever be achieved in solving this murder. Even with all the pieces being put together, the cops running things happen to be exactly why the investigation had only remained stalled for so long. Dominik Moll lets everything here unfold in the same manner that formed films like Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder and David Fincher’s Zodiac, in how both films told the stories of unsolved cases and the lingering effect that they had on the officers investigating, but doesn’t quite reach those same heights.

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