IMDb plot summary: In 1938, British detective Alan Cross travels to a small French coastal town to investigate the mysterious death of a close friend. Soon he becomes entangled in the strange lives of his prime suspects, the Graves, an aristocratic English family hiding many dark secrets.
Directed by Patrick Dewolf. Starring Adrian Dunbar, Gabrielle Anwar, Stephen Dorff, and Sophie Aubry.
(Spoilers ahead.)
If you've ever read an Agatha Christie book and thought, "You know what this needs? More incest," then, well, I suppose this will be the exact film you've been looking for. It's very very very loosely based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero, but the Christie estate refused to let them use the title or character names upon reading this script, and that was the right move. It's a nonsensically salacious film, in which "whodunnit" is not discovered but literally confessed by the murderer to the detective during their sex scene. The film also employs unintentionally hilarious editing that cuts abruptly away from over-the-top moments to unrelated scenes. There may be some adequate actors here but this film does them no favors at all, or anyone else who was creatively involved. What. A. Mess.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Innocent Lies < Jack Strong
Innocent Lies < Batman Begins
Innocent Lies < A Decade Under the Influence
Innocent Lies < Sahara (2017)
Innocent Lies > Un Chien Andalou
Innocent Lies > Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Innocent Lies < Loving Annabelle
Innocent Lies < C.H.U.D.
Innocent Lies < Gridiron Gang
Innocent Lies < The Wedding Planner
Innocent Lies < Journey for Margaret
Innocent Lies < At the Earth's Core
Final spot: #3050 out of 3200, or 5%.
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