LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) – Crime dramas normally finish with the perpetrator being caught, however French movie “La Nuit du 12” (“The Night time of the twelfth”) appears to be like as a substitute at how an unsolved homicide takes its toll on the police investigator attempting to resolve it.
Impressed by a real-life case described in Pauline Guéna’s e-book “18.3 – une année à la PJ” (“18.3 – A Yr With the Crime Squad”), the movie begins with the brutal homicide of younger girl Clara. Police investigator Yohan Vivès takes on the case, and whereas he digs into her life and interrogates suspect after suspect, he will get no nearer to discovering Clara’s killer.
“When you could have against the law story, you could have the crime after which … the general public desires the prison on the finish,” director Dominik Moll advised Reuters.
“The truth that it was unresolved, I felt that it allowed to … put the concentrate on different issues, be it on the police procedural work itself, or on the journey of the primary investigator Yohan, and the way he evolves and what that non-resolution does to him.”
On the core of the film, which final month received greatest movie and greatest director for Moll at France’s Cesar Awards, is the connection between women and men.
“Once we began to work on the screenplay … we rapidly felt that as a result of it was a femicide and since it was the homicide of a younger girl that males’s violence and the connection of women and men could be a theme or part of the movie that we needed to discover as properly,” he mentioned.
“What we additionally wished to query was the truth that the police remains to be … largely an all-male world and because the younger policewoman says on the finish (of the movie), isn’t it unusual that the majority the violence is dedicated by males after which it’s largely males who examine on it.”
One key scene sees character Nanie confront Yohan about repeatedly questioning her about her good friend Clara’s ex-partners.
“When it seems that (feminine victims) had an lively sexual life or a number of companions … then instantly the thought comes up that they could be just a little bit accountable for it … which is totally loopy,” Moll mentioned.
“It reveals that even in our superior western societies there’s nonetheless an issue with how the sexuality of girls is perceived by males and even by different girls.”
Set within the Alps, the movie premiered finally yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant and has been praised by critics and audiences.
“We additionally bought suggestions … particularly from girls … about how the movie had given them power and so they thanked us, as guys tackling such a topic,” Moll mentioned.
“For me, that’s extra necessary than the Cesar Awards, however it doesn’t imply that it’s not good (to have received awards).”
“The Night time of the twelfth” is launched in UK cinemas on Friday.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Enhancing by David Holmes
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