The gold standard of these stories is Bong Joon-ho's " Memories of Murder," with David Fincher's " Zodiac" close behind. "The Night of the 12th," is one of those stories about an unsolved murder (the opening credits state this outright), the cases that haunt the detectives who worked them, and the murderer that got away. The deeper they go into her life, the more mysterious the case becomes. These men are tantalizing as suspects but lead the detectives down a maze of blind alleys. One bursts out laughing when he talks about how she died. One wrote an angry rap song about setting her on fire. Clara had an active social life, and each man is sketchier than the one before. The cops suffer not from a paucity of leads, but too many leads. Yohan and his veteran partner Marceau ( Bouli Lanners) head up the investigation. Clara's half-charred body is discovered the following morning, curled up in the grass. A figure emerges from the shadows, says her name, douses her with liquid, and then sets her on fire. As she strolls through the dark empty streets, she makes a giggly video for a friend, blowing kisses. A young, vivacious woman named Clara ( Lula Cotton-Frapier) walks home from a party. Yohan Vivès ( Bastien Bouillon), unit chief in the Grenoble police department, is new to the job when a harrowing case comes in.
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