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MovieMail's Review
An atmospheric, gripping German drama, Baran bo Odar's intense and menacing debut is one of the finest examples from the new European crime wave, says James Oliver.
It's not just the Scandinavians who are making crime pay at the moment. This intense German mystery is one of the finest examples of the new European crime wave.
It begins in the mid-eighties, when a girl is murdered. The police are baffled; the case unsolved. Flash forward 23 years: another girl vanishes and the circumstances are identical. As the case progresses, old wounds are opened and fresh ones inflicted.
From the first scenes, it's clear this is going to be a compulsive, if harrowing, experience: The Silence is a film about a crime, rather than the puzzle of solving it. Not that the plot mechanics are neglected; it's paced to perfection and features some of the most agonising suspense sequences in recent years.
But for all its brilliance as a genre film – and it's one of the most effective in recent memory – the film is principally about its characters. The investigation is a magnet for the lonely and the damaged; the multiple meanings of the title only become clear after the film concludes. Highly recommended.
An atmospheric and gripping German murder mystery drama, The Silence is based on the novel 'Das Letzte Schweigen' by Jan Costin Wagner.
When a teenage girl goes missing on a hot summer's night, her abandoned bicycle is found in the exact spot where another girl was raped and murdered 23 years before. The detectives assigned to the case include the newly-retired Krischan Mittich, who worked on the unsolved 1987 case, David Jahn, a detective who has just returned to work after the death of his wife, and the heavily pregnant Jana Glaser.
