As someone who has made short films just for the fun of it, using the basic rules of filmmaking, this film doesn't reach the bare basics of the rules to follow.
I'm well aware of that this film is a detective genre, but there are countless questionable and plain out weird camera angles that are seen throughout the film. I can name several scenes where there is clear confusion about which character is speaking, also where you don't know if someone is in a scene until they suddenly start speaking during a brand new angle.
The script is horrible, it's like if someone took a British novel and put it through Google translate and decided that it was finished. One of the character are clearly fake sneezing (since you always hear that there's no snot in her nose), which she does constantly through her scenes. The main detective's actor is unable to deliver his lines. At the beginning of his pieces of the script, he lets out a larger amount of his breath which makes it sounds like he's reminded to raise his voice all the time. He's constantly extremely monotone and his eyes are glaring at the person he's having eye contact with.
The only reason this isn't getting 3 stars is because Andreas Nilsson does a brilliant job at acting his role.
Crimes of Passion: Roses, Kisses and Death
(2013 TV Movie)
Not even the basic rules of filmmaking are met
13 November 2020