Funny Games meets Parasite in this classy but nonsensical German Netflix thriller. A well-off German family on holiday in rural France accidentally 'run over' a young woman while driving back from a restaurant one night and take her on as a housekeeper for the Summer to buy her silence, but as Teodora and her dead-eyed friends gradually insert themselves into the family's lives, events take a very dark turn. There is an element of quietly brooding tension that builds from the start, with an eminently ominous soundtrack and a nice compositional stillness on screen, and the cast is solid. Its class/elitism metaphor is clumsy, Idiot Plot abounds (especially in the actions and responses of the family), and a major clue to the 'shocking' twist is laid out very bluntly earlier in the film. There are positives to be found in this film, but tightening up the screenplay would have been an advantage.
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