Black for Remembrance

5.9 / 10

(17 votes)

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.

Country:

France,

Germany,

Switzerland

Genre:

Thriller,

Mystery

Duration:

92 minutes

Year:

1995

Director:

Jean-Pierre Mocky

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Company:

Odessa Films,

Koala Films,

France 2 Cinéma,

M6 Films,

Les Productions JMH,

Neue Bioskop Film

Cast:
Jane Birkin

Caroline

Sabine Azéma

Lucy

Jean-François Stévenin

Commissaire Tom Jérôme

Benoît Régent

Dr. David Wahl

Matthias Habich

Chris Corday

Crew:
André Ruellan

Screenplay

Xavier Loutreuil

Editor

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Editor

Bruno Zincone

Editor

Gabriel Yared

Original Music Composer