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Black for Remembrance (1995)

Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky

Overview

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.

Length 92 minutes

Actors

Jane Birkin | Sabine Azéma | Jean-François Stévenin | Benoît Régent | Matthias Habich | Jenny Alpha | Vanessa Larré | Samuel Dupuy | Michel Bertay | Jany Holt | Alain Fourès | Dominique Zardi | Bénédicte Loyen | Fabienne Barraud | Claudine Berthet | Marina Rollman | Jean Schlegel | Urs Bosshardt | Antoine Monot Jr.