The Night of the 12th

The Night of the 12th is practically an anti-detective story. Right in the opening credits, we can clearly see that the film is about an unsolved case, but despite this fact, you spend the next nearly two hours devouring the procedure of a classic crime film, as if you're going to see the end result, because it otherwise works very well through the construction of the plot. The film only slightly lags in the scenes where it quite literally tries to point out collective guilt (and the following statement may be a spoiler, so beware), because if the victim wasn't demonstrably killed by a specific individual, everyone was the killer. The symbolism is nice, but script-wise it shouts too much and doesn't fit. Otherwise, thumbs up. (28/05/2023)

A deliberately apathetic crime story about tired justice and one case that becomes a nightmare for the lone commissioner protagonist. It’s a highly relevant depiction of violence against women and institutional victim blaming, but above all a beautifully depressing procedural about hope and futility. After Only the Animals, Moll is great once more. (24/05/2022)