Are you a police officer or a tourist? A shopkeeper to one of the cops-a statement that explains the whole vibe of the film
Two detectives, Conrad and Crab, are transfered to a small town called Saint-Marie-aux-Mines. When a ring is stolen, the pair investigate.
I am going to tell you right at the start you have to go with this film for a while before it clicks. While nominally a mystery, the film is less interested in the mystery then the interactions of everyone the cops meet. In some ways they missing ring is not what the filmmakers were interested in. I was about halfway into the film before it clicked. That was when I finally stopped caring about anything other than the people on the screen.
This film cares so litle about about the mystery, that it gets lost as another mystery and a romance are picked up and the film digresses into the lives of the various characters. This is a film about the people. It's also a film with an absolutely absurd sense of reality as you will see in a late in the game chase.
Is this high art? No. Is it entertaining? Ultimately yes. Assuming you can go with the fact that the film is going to wander all over the place, you'll have a good time.
Recommended.
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