THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH
| 2022 – 116′ – Crime, Thriller, Drama
Written by: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand, Pauline Guéna.
Directed by: Dominik Moll.
Starring: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg, Johann Dionnet, Théo Cholbi, Thibaut Evrard, Julien Frisson, Paul Jeanson, Mouna Soualem.
World Premiere Cannes International Film Festival, North American Premiere at The American French Film Festival. Winner of 7 Cesar Awards including Best Film and Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release.|
Each year, the French police open more than 800 murder investigations. Close to 20% of them remain unsolved. This is one of them. Captain Yohan Vibès, the investigator in charge of the case in Dominik Moll‘s finely-tuned, piercing detective story, tells us that, “Sooner or later, every investigator comes across a crime that haunts him.” It devours him from within. For Yohan, it’s the murder of a young woman named Clara Royer, which transpired on the night of the 12th, outside of Grenoble, against the looming backdrop of the French Alps. Actors Bastien Bouillon and Bouli Lanners lead a strong cast, and a homicide team that leaves no stone unturned. More profoundly, the astute film ponders gender issues in this “man’s world” of crime and punishment, where men commit crimes and men investigate crimes — often crimes committed against women… whose lives are often dissected and vilified, nonetheless. In his most introspective moments, the taciturn Yohan even begins to see his suspects in himself. As promised, the case presents more questions than answers. And Yohan just keeps going in circles.