"Dominik Moll’s film is very strong on the prosaic details of a murder investigation – the interminable trawling through files, the apparent break-throughs that are revealed as dead ends, the questioning of a depressing litany of creeps, bullies and stalkers"
French true crime adaptation The Night of the 12th ( La nuit du 12 ) is a response to the fraught relationship between men and women, and the detective as metaphor.