Ok one reviewer mentions a "goof"; the mother describes a bloodbath, that her daughter was unrecognizable after the murder except for her face. Then we see her body and the wounds seem mostly superficial, certainly not as described by the mother. Is it a goof, or not a goof because the body pictures were post-mortem? Well, the mother also describes blood on the walls, and there definitely was no blood on the walls. Why am I bringing this up?, not to be pedantic, but this is the sort of detail viewers can't help but go over, and question about themselves. Does this detail implicate the mother? She had the most opportunity to kill her daughter and know how to frame Lise.
Now I don't know exactly how French courts work, but certainly a lot of the work of the prosecutor seemed totally wrong. I think they'd actually start with physical evidence, the knife wounds, the missing knife, the opportunity, or lack of opportunity (when did Lise have time to clean off any blood on herself or her clothes?) The snarky insinuations about her lack of expressing appropriate emotions, and family members not being supportive enough... not only unprofessional generally, but that would irl, risk turning the jury against the prosecution. In short, the proceedings are pure fantasy, and while my review opening suggest there's intellectual puzzles to mull over, the film's not really that sophisticated. It just doesn't have a real conclusion. And for once that didn't bother me. There's not just plot holes, the whole thing is one big plot hole! But it's interesting enough, and well-acted enough that it doesn't matter.
Now I don't know exactly how French courts work, but certainly a lot of the work of the prosecutor seemed totally wrong. I think they'd actually start with physical evidence, the knife wounds, the missing knife, the opportunity, or lack of opportunity (when did Lise have time to clean off any blood on herself or her clothes?) The snarky insinuations about her lack of expressing appropriate emotions, and family members not being supportive enough... not only unprofessional generally, but that would irl, risk turning the jury against the prosecution. In short, the proceedings are pure fantasy, and while my review opening suggest there's intellectual puzzles to mull over, the film's not really that sophisticated. It just doesn't have a real conclusion. And for once that didn't bother me. There's not just plot holes, the whole thing is one big plot hole! But it's interesting enough, and well-acted enough that it doesn't matter.