Two grim detectives uncover a university's dark secrets while hunting a killer in the bleak French Alps.
Suspenseful and pulpy. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Kanopy (free) and Hoopla (free).
No surprises for an R: some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence.
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Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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