The Night of the 12th, directed by Dominik Moll – Review

Crítica de ‘La noche del 12’ 

Empezar por el final

De puertas para adentro

Dos figuras

Seguir porque no hay otra opción

Título: La noche del 12
Título original: La noche del 12

Reparto:
Bastien Bouillon (Capitán Yohan Vives)
Bouli Lanners (Marceau)
Théo Cholbi (Willy)
Johann Dionnet (Fred)
Thibaut Evrard (Loïc)
Julien Frison (Boris)
Paul Jeanson (Jérôme)
Mouna Soualem (Nadia)
Pauline Serieys (Stéphanie Béguin dite Nanie)
Lula Cotton-Frapier (Clara Royer)
Charline Paul (Madame Royer)
Matthieu Rozé (Sr. Royer)

Año: 2022
Duración: 114 min.
País: Francia
Director: Dominik Moll
Guion: Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll. Libro: Pauline Guéna
Fotografía: Patrick Ghiringhelli
Música: Olivier Marguerit
Género: Intriga. Thriller

the night of the 12ththe new movie Dominik Moll 🇧🇷the monk), based on a real case, competed in the Official Section of the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The film follows the police investigation into the murder of Clara Royer, a young woman who was doused with gasoline and burned in the street by an unknown person on October 12, 2016. It premieres on the Filmin platform on December 2.

Trailer for ‘The Night of the 12th’

The Night of the 12th movie synopsis

In this French-style crime thriller, he tells the story of a detective who is troubled by a case he cannot solve: the murder of a young woman in the city of Grenoble. What begins as a routine investigation soon becomes a personal obsession that will forever alter his personal life.

In the judicial police, all investigators sooner or later come across a crime that they cannot solve and which becomes an obsession. For Yohan it is about the murder of Clara, a young woman who was doused with gasoline and burned in the street by a stranger. Interrogations follow one another and there is no shortage of suspects, but Yohan’s doubts do not stop growing. There is only one certainty: the crime was committed on the night of the 12th.shooting🇧🇷

Where can you stream the movie?

the night of the 12th It is an atypical film because it does not respond to the canon of films of its genre. It tells the story of the murder of a girl in Grenoble and the police investigations to solve the case. However, in the first minute of the film we know that the crime will not be solved. It is one of the many cases that go to sleep in the drawer, a number at the end of statistics and the reflection of inconsolable parents.

The director makes a very risky bet, since the biggest incentive of the the night of the 12th It is disjointed on the first exchange. You can see the agony of the unfinished case, of having answers without evidence and knowing that there will be no justice. Yohan will take it personally without knowing how to distance himself. There is something Machiavellian in assuming that there is no happy ending and that the protagonist is not alive, but dead.

Along the night of the 12th Suspects succeed one another, the possible motives, but it wasn’t just specified, the murderer doesn’t surface. Every spectator has a murder, someone who could have committed it. Already knowing that the crime has no solution, the cameras forget who and focus on how. Around the unit, a review of everyday life is produced. The personal problems of its members, the technical and material difficulties they face. Good versus evil and a broken printer. It has little glamor, but reality. The director uses a police station, but it could be a hospital as well.

The habit of the extraordinary. How to deal with death, the victim reminds his son, his father. The first case where justice was not done is always with you, like a wound from when you were little that reminds you it happened and you were there. The thoughts that can arise during an investigation and that we never see in movies of the genre. In this case, there is the incentive that the young woman who was murdered had several relationships at the same time, so they always fly over the common places where part of the burden of responsibility falls on her. The director puts us in front of the mirror with data, there is only one culprit.

the root of the night of the 12th two silhouettes are drawn in your mind. First, there are killers on the loose. These crimes were committed by someone, whom you meet at the bakery, in line for the bus. People who carry the weight of having taken a life on their backs. It is vertiginous to know that they are on the street as if nothing had happened. Secondly, the parents, stoic figures for whom life is already secondary. Who live with only two hopes, justice and memory. Justice will not come and the memory takes shape on the walks to the cemetery and on the anniversary where everything comes back to memory with more strength and sadness.

the night of the 12th because life shows that it is necessary to continue despite everything. This loss, however tragic and unfair it may seem, cannot bankrupt us. In the end, although bitter, it has a vital point, open the windows and get out. When there are no answers and we can’t get them, we can only continue. Because the important thing in this case is to investigate, ask, investigate, not give up trying, even if there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Yohan was looking for justice and he won’t get it, but even if it’s just a little bit, he’ll get it himself.

join our TELEGRAM CHANNEL