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I just finished watching Girl With A Bracelet (La fille au bracelet) and thought it was a remarkably nuanced psychological drama, resisting many of the courtroom drama tropes in American movies. Just learned that it's a remake of the Argentinian film Acusada, both with fairly open and inconclusive endings. I have searched online everywhere for opinion articles (obviously with spoilers) to the ending of these movies, to no avail, did Lise murder her best friend or not? If not, who did? Does anyone have any thoughts?
PS -- could only find one review on IMDB where an alternate villain was suggested. [spoiler warning]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766886/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Demoustier deals in statement above and understatement beneath. In Lise's trial, everything is spelled out, except for --why she remains so silent and --who could have murdered her friend if she didn't. Has anyone else noticed what the camera emphasizes: that the little brother is left-handed? that he gives multiple signs of having no feelings, no empathy? that he uses the red-handled knife with dexterity and offers a flimsy excuse for having it? that he can't wait until his sister is gone so he can have her room? The knife marks on the victim were "superficial" except for the one that killed her. So okay, he was only six or seven, and maybe this hunch is way off. In an American movie, the loose ends would have been tied up. This one is seriously French.
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This is baseless. She herself stated that she left her best friends place to pick up her brother from school.
I think she was guilty because she replaces her bracelet in the end while walking away meaning she lives on with the guilt.
I agree!
This.
There's no way the younger brother did it. No way an 8-10 yo is smart enough to pull off a murder with no traces.
On the other hand, Lise acts like a guilty person throughout the movie. She seems to have minimal interest in the proceedings and doesn't appear to be fazed even when she's clearly had a bad day in court. It seemed like she would have been fine with any verdict; there was no fight or desperation in her actions. Only a guilty person acts that way imo.
Lise was guilty of killing her friend. The part right at the end where she transferred her necklace to her ankle was her way of keeping the security bracelet on as a self imposed punishment.
Okay so I saw the movie today and was looking for interpretations of the ending. I saw too that the younger brother was left handed and I was seriously intrigued but there was like zero motive. I thought during the entire movie that she was innocent. That she suffered from some kind of mental issues that did not allow her to show emotion during stress which was misinterpreted as guilt. I really want to believe she is innocent. She seemed too confident for a guilty person. And why would it be expected of her to write to the mom if she is guilty anyway? I didn’t really like the fact that there were no other suspects though
IMO the boy who was in the video with Lise (the video that Flora uploaded on Facebook) was the actual killer! As he explained he had some kind of a bond with Flora, so there was a chance he might have gotten to know about what had happened between Flora and Lise at the night after the party ended. He couldn't digest it and he killed her. This could be a possibility!
That's exactly what I thought. When he's on the stand and talking (what I thought was bullshit) about how afraid Flora was of Lise, I just felt like he was saying all of that to ensure people believe it was Lise and not him.
I think he went round to see Flora in the morning/afternoon and found out Lise and Flora were intimate and he was jealous and killed her.
I may be looking into it too deep but even in the video where it showed them dancing the night of the party, it looked like he kept trying to wedge himself in between Lise and Flora.
I for sure think it was him, and I'm disappointed no one ever thought to question him as a suspect!
How did he do this without leaving any physical evidence? It's a compelling theory but a crime of passion would have likely resulted in some DNA, fingerprint, fibre, ... left behind. The police would have definitely considered him as a suspect so he must have been cleared by them
It seems like Lise did do it. She conveniently leaves the house MINUTES before the 1 hr window during which the murder happens. She conveniently has sex with her best friend to explain away her DNA under the victim's fingernails and all over the crime scene. She randomly talks about how she would get rid of the murder weapon (why??!) Her own dad questions her lack of expression. Most importantly of course, she puts her "bracelet" back on at the end.
It would take an exceptional individual to stab someone to death at the age of 16 and still behave perfectly normally afterwards (ultimately her behaviour and explanations are how she got away with it), so she must be a highly intelligent psychopath.
You've been watching to many movies.
He would have been questioned and cleared with an alibi.
I didn’t think of it before, but the way you put it; it makes all the sense now.