![]() ![]() ![]() Based on a true-crime book by Pauline Guéna, the movie turns into one of the most casually authentic of investigative murder mysteries. David Fincher’s “Zodiac,” with its tantalizing ambiguities, might stand as an exception to the form - a singular winding creep-out, without the closure we’re thirsting for - yet even there you feel, by the end, that you’ve glimpsed the face of evil.īut “ The Night of the 12th,” the French thriller that was nominated for 10 César Awards and won six of them, including best picture (it opens here on May 19), throws the audience a slow-motion curveball that’s intended to tinker with our dreams. We will know who the killer is, and in knowing that a kind of order will have been restored. Watching a police-procedural homicide drama, whether it’s the grungiest of VOD potboilers or the most visionary film of the genre, Michael Mann’s silvery, dread-drenched “Manhunter,” we more or less know one thing: At the end of two hours, the grisly mystery we’ve been dunked in will have its catharsis and its resolution. ![]()
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