Der Herr des Waldes (2021)
The young high school student Jessi has a date and is dressing up for it. But not in the disco, she goes to the nearby forest on the outskirts. A short time later she is dead. First, a carbon arrow hits her in the thigh, then a knife stab in the heart. When a jogger found the body the next day, it showed, among other things, bite marks and a twig in its mouth. The Saarland police investigative team around the chief inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk is faced with a riddle, because the branch in the mouth indicates an old hunter's custom. Is it a ritual crime?
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One of my all time favorites.
Don't Believe the Hype
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.