French auteur Dominik Moll’s newest thriller debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and mesmerized audiences. Based on a true story, The Night of the 12th is a powerful police procedural that will haunt you for days. A six-time César Award winner, including Best Film and Best Director.
When a young woman is murdered and her corpse burned, Yohan (Bastien Bouillon) and Marceau (Bouli Lanners) are assigned to the case. But days, then weeks, then months go by, and the case grows colder and colder, and soon this pair finds themselves digging themselves deeper and deeper into a morass that reveals the worst of their home country. A film that evokes the obsessions and frustrations of Zodiac, Dominick Moll’s The Night of the 12th is a thriller par excellence.
Director Biography
Dominik Moll was born in West Germany and studied film at the City College of New York and the French National Film School. His film With a Friend Like Harry… (2000) won numerous Cesar Awards and, along with his film, Lemming (2005), was nominated for the Palme d’Or.