Wrong Identity – In der Haut einer Mörderin (2013)

Wrong Identity – In der Haut einer Mörderin: Directed by Iain Softley. With Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour. A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend’s life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

“It is actually the second version (I would not write u0026quot;remakeu0026quot; ) of Japrisotu0026#39; s thriller ;it was already transferred to the screen in 1965(two years after the novel was released).The director was André Cayatte ,an excellent old school artist too often ridiculed by the overrated new wavelet.(see u0026quot;Piège Pour Cendrillonu0026quot;)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy and large ,Iu0026#39;m not a fan of Japrisot whose plots are often complicated instead of complex and I do not put him in the same league as Boileau-Narcejac (u0026quot;diaboliquesu0026quot;,u0026quot;vertigou0026quot;),Frédéric Dard (whose u0026quot;Toi Le Veninu0026quot; broached the subject of the u0026quot;doubleu0026quot;in early sixties ),let alone Agatha Christie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat said ,u0026quot; Piège Pour Cendrillon u0026quot; is a different matter;the subject is not new (u0026quot;Spellboundu0026quot; , the contemporary u0026quot; the third day u0026quot; ( 1965) u0026quot;shatteredu0026quot; and countless others dealt with amnesia );but the treatment,including four parts ,each one containing the same verb in four different tenses of French conjugation was downright disturbing;and the ending was all the more baffling since the mystery was not solved .(It was the reader who decided )u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the plus side,Kerry Fox took on Robinsonu0026#39;s role-in the French movie- with consummate skill ;Alexandra Roach as brittle Do is eye candy;but itu0026#39;s not all good news :with such a story,it would have taken a great director and (mainly) a talented script writer (Japrisot wrote himself the screenplay of the French effort).Adding an overt lesbian relationship between Mi and Do does not help ,today itu0026#39;s no longer risqué and even trendy ,à la mode, as we French would say;an intrusive music does not help either.Editing is botched.Whereas the story was essentially psychological thriller,this flashy movie fills its quota of topless women and sex ,neglecting the harrowing frames of mind of the heroine.”