Case 137: the film review by Dominik Moll

THEL CASE 137
Type: drama, detective story ✦✦✦
Direction: Dominik Moll. With Léa Drcker, Jonathan Turnbull, Mathilde Roehrich

There are the facts, the 2018 Yellow Vest uprising which mobilized millions of people in France. And there is the cinema. Moll, a declared admirer of the American documentary maker Fred Wiseman, a great narrator of the institutions, gets to the heart of the Igpn, the “internal affairs” of the police, he chooses the gaze of a woman, an inspector caught between two fires (Léa Drucker, from César) and seeks impossible confirmations.

Continue later The night of the 12th to make use of genre cinema (here the police investigation) for reveal dark aspects of society and of the human soul.

And use images (photos, videos, surveillance cameras, kitten posts) to tell a present devoid of certainties: the truth is no longer there. And there certainly isn’t just one.

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