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For November, A Wider Angle, our monthly film series highlighting independent global cinema, will screen the 2022 French mystery thriller The Night of the 12th, directed by 2-time César Award-winning director Dominik Moll. The film premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and would go on to win six César Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars) in 2023, including Best Picture, Director, Adaptation, and two acting awards.Based on true events described in a 2020 French non-fiction book, the film realistically depicts the determined but ultimately unsuccessful efforts of an investigative unit of the Grenoble police department to solve the gruesome murder of a young woman in a nearby mountain resort town. Even a final shot-in-the-dark attempt to gather potential evidence several years later after reopening the investigation, which seems to generate a genuinely promising suspect, leaves the detectives seemingly no closer to a resolution.
In French with English subtitles. (Running time 115 minutes)
For a review of the film, click https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-12th-movie-review-2023
For more information about the event, click https://memphis.librarycalendar.com/event/wider-angle-film-series-night-12th-17320
A Wider Angle film series is made possible through funding provided by the Friends of the Library.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Memphis Public Libraries - Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library (Benjamin L. Hooks Central), 3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38111-3527, United States,Memphis, Tennessee
