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The second “Tatort” in Zurich leads to the Züriberg villa of a chocolate maker. A film with a lot of girl power that bravely works its way through an exaggerated story.
The two researchers Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler, left) and Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher).
Photo: PD
The new curators of “Tatort” from Switzerland, Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) and Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler), made their remarkable debut in the fall. And first of all: it is not up to the actresses that the second Zurich episode with the title “Schoggilänke” is not good. Her opponents did their job well too, as this episode allowed: 81-year-old Zurich dean Sibylle Brunner (“Rosie”) as company patriarch and Elisa Plüss, born in Zurich in 1989 and member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus, like his granddaughter.
The problem is that framework. All the power of the Helvetic woman gathered here cannot remove any suspense from the overloaded story, written by Stefan Brunner and Lorenz Langenegger, and their sometimes exaggerated staging (Viviane Andereggen).
Scissors of wicked wealth
Although the themes reveal a lot, they screamed loudly in the film: the “Zureich” of Zurich, that is to say, the wicked wealth gap, which also opens between the policemen. The icy existence of the facade in a high society in the style of Fritz Zorn’s “Mars”. The omnipresent mat at the top, the omnipresent fear at the bottom, between the Sans-Papiers and the homeless Hungarians. Housing shortage, homophobia, prostitution, surrogacy, depression. Is there something else?
In the case of the gay chocolate maker Chevalier, who was murdered in his villa in Züriberg, these subjects are grouped together in a striking and implausible way, to form a pseudo-ancient tragedy, renewed with techniques such as reproductive medicine and forensic evidence in 3D. . Brunner’s patriarch, in particular, makes generous use of the themed search table, which Swiss television used to redesign the favorite motif for national sweets; instead of chocolate soap (“Lüthi und Blanc”) now chocolate thriller. And with the granddaughter, the desire for power combines with the ideological sense of mission to create a diabolical mix.
Sibylle Brunner, as the company’s patriarch, struggles with her equally power-hungry granddaughter (Elisa Plüss).
Photo: SRF
The movie is also bogged down by the colorful mosaic of motivation. The general confusion is intensified by a director who ostentatiously leaves much unsaid, preferring to approach gestures without words, waving meanings. When it comes to the horizontal narrative about police officers’ backgrounds, Director Andereggen also likes to rely on whispers.
On the other hand, the explicit metamoments of “Schoggilänke” are really successful: the two investigators and the prosecutor reveal what holds their world together and speak directly to the audience. “What would you have done?” In any case, we will also be excited about the upcoming Ott / Grandjean “crime scene”. Something is still happening.
