Word: whoduniteer
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...this trim, beautifully managed psychological thriller, a series of bizarre murders takes place. The mystery is not whodunit, but why; for Director Claude Chabrol (This Man Must Die) is fascinated by motivation, not detection. "I am not interested in solving puzzles," he has explained. "I am interested in studying the behavior of people involved in murder...
...glimpse at the problems of a small and decaying coal mining town in the Midwest. It is in the style of Spoon River Anthology, with short, essentially unconnected dialogues and monologues. The play's leitmotif is a rape which has galvanized the town in classic whodunit style. When they don't talk about the rape, the characters lead what we presume to be their normal lives...
...Simone Signoret, Montand's real-life wife) is relegated to the unhappy role of two-dimensional superfluity. Indeed, Costa-Gavras' style is to present characters as metaphors for life forces, rather than as people. That was fine for Z, which was sustained by the suspense of its whodunit framework. Confession fails as a film because it is at base a stenographic document, meticulously recounting the liturgy of political confession without regard for its drama...
...world, only the glints of its own inner harmonies. It is all a diabolical plot, and the first to be overthrown by it are the reviewers, for there is no way to describe it without giving away its secrets. It can only be said that its protagonist, a successful whodunit writer named Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), is a witty snob who is inwardly delighted when a would-be lover makes a bid to divest him of his burdensome wife. Wyke sets out to ensnare his apparent dupe (Keith Baxter) in his own obsession with masks, disguises and charades...
...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...