This film is beautifully shot with many evocative images as the viewer is taken on a journey with two detectives trying to uncover the truth behind a murder. The first three-quarters of the film is an above-average procedural police drama that reveals long held secrets of both victim and suspect. The final section of the film strays far from the pacing and perspective of the earlier parts of the story, and devolves into an extended melodramatic tableaux of the lives of the killer and victim. This section is so lengthy and overwrought that the entire mood of the film, set in the movie earlier, is lost. The director would have benefited from a more steady hand in the editing room.
Review of The Castle of Sand
