In Her Place review true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock - Movies

Based on a real murder in Chile in the 1950s, Maite Alberdis fictional story of obsession has glamour and style, but no intensity Chiles Oscar entry this year is this quirky, unsatisfying oddity from director Maite Alberdi, co-produced by Pablo Larran, and inspired by a stranger-than-fiction true-crime case from the 1950s. It is elegant and amusing enough at first, with some rackety humour that Alfred Hitchcock might have