Europe 1 with AFP 11:21 p.m., February 24, 2023
The film "La Nuit du 12" by Dominik Moll wins its second award of the César 2023 evening. After allowing Bastien Bouillon to obtain the prize for best male hope, the crime film wins the prize for best director thanks work of Dominik Moll, its director.
Dominik Moll won the César for best director on Friday for "La Nuit du 12", recounting the impossible investigation into a feminicide.
"We are lucky in France to have an audience that has an appetite for films that go off the beaten track, it's a curiosity that must be maintained," said the 60-year-old filmmaker, 22 years after receiving the César for best achievement for "Harry a friend who wants you well".
The film, which is one of the favorites of the evening with "L'Innocent" by Louis Garrel, has already received the prize for best male hope, for Bastien Bouillon, 37, who plays a police investigator, in tandem with Bouli Lanners.
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the "Cannes Première" section, "La nuit du 12" traces an investigation by the judicial police, after the assassination of a young girl, without witnesses and in the middle of the night.
He delivers a gallery of suspects steeped in toxic masculinity and also attacks machismo in the police.
Released in theaters in July, "La nuit du 12" was one of the French successes of the year, with 509,000 spectators in total.
Inspired by a news item recounted by Pauline Guéna in her investigation of the PJ of Versailles ("18.3, a year at the PJ"), he had already received the Jacques Deray Prize for crime film, awarded by the Institut Lumière in Lyon .
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