Following its success at the Cannes Film Festival and in cinemas, La Nuit du 12 won six César awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Emerging Actor (for Bastien Bouillon), Best Supporting Actor (for Bouli Lanners), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound.
From the opening card, the subject of the film is clear: this is the story of an unsolved crime, the murder of young Clara, found on the night of the 12th. She was surrounded by numerous suspects, all men. Worst of all, they could all have committed the crime, but Yohan, the police officer in charge of the investigation, is unable to bring any of the suspects to justice for lack of evidence...
Far from the drama of American thrillers, here realism is the order of the day. The crime takes place in a small, remote province where everyone knows everyone else, and where resources are scarce... The investigation is often fascinating, but it's not what interests the filmmaker behind Seules les Bêtes most. Here, it's obviously the vision of women that's being questioned, as well as the generation gap.
The staging is meticulous and implacable, and even though we know that the crime will never be solved, the suspense remains intact and the film is surprising from start to finish. Above all, the actors are incredible. Bouli Lanners and Bastien Bouillon, both of whom won awards for their performances, carry the film on their shoulders, making La Nuit du 12 a ruthless thriller that took the Césars by surprise.
At PJ, every investigator stumbles across a crime they can't solve, and which haunts them. For Yohan, it's Clara's murder. Question after question, suspect after suspect, Yohan's doubts grow and grow. Only one thing is certain: the crime took place on the night of the 12th.
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