SIFF 2026: Murder in the Building (***1/2)

By Dennis Hartley

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Rémi Bezanço’s comedy-mystery is a winking homage to Rear Window  (reminiscent of Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery). A Parisian couple-an agoraphobic mystery writer and his wife (a film professor specializing in…Hitchcock) fear they may have witnessed a neighbor doing away with his wife following a spat. A well-trod course of amateur sleuthing hi-jinks ensues; but it’s bolstered by a clever construct, lots of laughs, genuine suspense, and the charming performances by the two lead actors.