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Maybe because many critics who follow international cinema like to turn up their noses at such mainstream award winners.
Its real-world mysteries eventually become existential ones, but the film never stops sending chills up your spine.
Like those aforementioned titles,The Night of the 12this based on a real-life case.
(Moll has taken some liberties with the real-life case, which occurred outside Paris.)
Knowing that the actual whodunit part of the whodunit might go nowhere subconsciously opens up our field of vision.
Nobody seems particularly trustworthy.
One guy admits that he once wrote a song about setting her on fire.
A young gym rat cant stop himself from giggling when he hears about the girl being burnt alive.
But the cops themselves display many of the same attitudes.
They crack jokes in the face of grisly crimes.
They judge this young woman for her casual relationships.
They claim the moral high ground even as they demonstrate their own moral baseness, over and over again.
The hypocrisy seeps through.
They have no real sense of Clara as a person.
Thats one reason why he becomes so obsessed with the case.
It might also be the reason why he cant move forward in his own life.
Its only about one murder.
