This review was published when the film hit theaters in April 2021. We will publish them again for broadcast on 3Sat.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince didn’t have such a true crime film in mind when he allowed cinemas to open again in 2018 after almost 40 years of ban: a documentary with an arc of suspense like a thriller, about a murder whose background sounds so crazy like some of the dialogues. “Has our sacrificial animal arrived yet?” asks one