a trio sit at a restaurant table and stare wordlessly into space . later and they lean on a rail and stare across the channel at england . a man work a hoe repetitively in his garden and only his head and upper torso visible on the screen . a man and a woman watch another man pee against a stone wall . each of these silent shot last for roughly one full minute . absolutely no information be impart that could not be give to u in about one quarter of the time . the editor must have be half asleep . i know i be . the movie open with a startle shot of the raw vagina of an obviously dead body . one gorge rise . but then the policeman ( schotte ) exchange a few word with a neighboring couple and begin to tag along after them and the case be forget for the next half hour while schotte and his friend trade unfunny insult with each other and with stranger . eventually the thread of the case be pick up again but proceeds slowly and almost aimlessly and follow the stylistic pattern already establish . sometimes in movie like this and the location shoot provide a kind of atmosphere that compensate for the dullness of the story and but not here . the house of the french village be attach to one another in long row . the house front abut the pavement directly and with no step . the front show virtually no decoration and be pretty much indistinguishable . the flat farmland be featureless . what might have be one of the more interesting episodes a visit to a stone fort on the coast bore the trio until they begin behave like snot and be ask to leave . the acting be minimal . nobody seem particularly anxious to say anything . no joke be make . nothing amuse happens . the policeman have a face almost as interesting a randy quaid . the babe and a tall hefty blonde and look like the kind of shot putter on steroid that the east german use to field at the olympic game . i sit through more than an hour of it before give it up . maybe i will take a crack at it some other time . unless i have miss something or unless it turn into some deranged monty python routine towards the end and i do not think you will get much out of rent it .