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Cannes Film Festival 2022: our reviews of La Nuit du 12 and Les nuits de Mashhad

2022-05-22T21:34:39.427Z


A girl walks home at night, she'll never make it. And an Iranian serial killer is victimizing prostitutes.


Our stroke of blues:

The Night of 12

, by Dominik Moll

Cannes premiere

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It's a job that leaves no one unscathed, except sometimes criminals.

From the outset, a comment warns: each year, the judicial police are confronted with thousands of crimes;

20% of them go unpunished.

It is on one of the latter that Dominik Moll looked.

It is three o'clock in the morning in a village in Isère.

A girl leaves a party with friends.

She walks home.

She will never get there.

On her way, she will come across an individual who sprinkles her with gasoline and sets her on fire.

The investigators arrive, their new boss, Yohan, at their head.

It is up to him to announce the unbearable news to the parents.

The PJ investigates.

Her best friend is upset.

Who did Clara sleep with?

Investigators urge her to respond.

Jealousy is a major motive for murder.

None of the men the victim has known seems to be approachable: at best with icy indifference, at worst disoriented.

It makes me want to break everything...

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Source: lefigaro

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