Intrigo: Samaria (2019)

Intrigo: Samaria: Directed by Daniel Alfredson. With Phoebe Fox, Andrew Buchan, Millie Brady, Jeff Fahey. Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn’t even have time to notice that she’s not alone. The sudden blow is heavy and knocks Vera headlong onto the kitchen floor where she is left lying. Henry is a successful copywriter in Antwerp. One day he is approached by Paula, a documentary filmmaker. Ten years earlier, she was Vera’s classmate. Now she plans to make a film about Vera and wants Henry to become involved as he was their teacher back then in the city of Münster. Despite his plea of innocence Jakob Kall sits imprisoned for the murder of his daughter. This tragic and brutal story brings Paula and Henry together as they search for the truth behind what really happened, and why Vera’s body was never found. Both Henry and Paula carry well-hidden secrets which are slowly and inexorably forced out into the open. But the big question remains; is the man incarcerated in the maximum-security section of Bittinger prison really Vera’s killer?

“Ten years ago, schoolgirl Millie Brady disappeared, never to be found again. Her father was found guilty of her murder, but her body was never found. Now, Phoebe Fox, who had been her classmate, is making a film abut the girl. She goes to their teacher, Andrew Buchan, who is now a copywriter, to ask for his participation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe third of three movies based on Håkan Nesseru0026#39;s collection of short stories, is not as compelling as the other two. Perhaps it is the nature of the crime that underlies this story, or the performers, or perhaps, looking at three of them in short order, or the slow, plodding way in which it uncovers and reveals the sordid situation. Perhaps I am mildly bored by similarity of technique in all three: the gorgeous camerawork, the way the silences fill in the characters and situations. In any case, it is still a well-told tale.”