The Girl in the Fog
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Directed by | Donato Carrisi |
Written by | Donato Carrisi |
Produced by | Maurizio Totti Alessandro Usai |
Starring | Toni Servillo Alessio Boni Jean Reno |
Cinematography | Federico Masiero |
Edited by | |
Music by | Vito Lo Re |
Production companies | Rainbow S.p.A. Medusa Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Girl in the Fog (Italian: La ragazza nella nebbia) is a 2017 Italian psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Donato Carrisi.[1]
Plot[]
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Anna Lou, a 16-year old girl, disappears in the remote town of Avechot, in the Italian Alps. The expert investigator Vogel is called in to lead the case. Vogel is famous for creating sensational media coverage around the cases he investigates. In fact, Avechot newspapers and television stations bear down relentlessly on Loris Martini, a local school professor who is charming but deeply in debt, and who becomes the prime suspect. But the truth turns out to be more convoluted: Martini is later cleared when it is revealed that Vogel falsified evidence, putting the professor's blood on the girl's backpack. Once cleared, Martini is granted compensation of 1 million euros. Meanwhile a journalist proposes the theory that the latest crime is the work of a past serial killer, known as the man of the fog. In the end, it is revealed that Martini did kill Anna Lou in a copy cat crime of the Fog man serial killer. He deliberately planted self-incriminating clues but without ever leaving concrete evidence, in order to spur Vogel to take action, licitly and otherwise, to frame him, as Vogel had done in a famous earlier case thereby winning the 1 million dollars in a suit against the police. It is revealed at the end in a discussion between Vogel and Dr. Flores that Vogel murders Martini so he cannot benefit from his crime. In a final twist is revealed in the last scene that Dr. Flores is the man in the fog.
Cast[]
- Toni Servillo as Agent Vogel[2]
- Alessio Boni as Prof. Loris Martini
- Jean Reno as Dr. Augusto Flores
- Lorenzo Richelmy as Agent Borghi
- Galatea Ranzi as Stella Honer
- Michela Cescon as Agent Mayer
- as Clea
- as Maria Kastner
- as Mattia
- Greta Scacchi as Beatrice Lehman
Reception[]
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Girl in the Fog have an approval rating of 75%, based on 8 reviews.[3]
Awards[]
- David di Donatello — Best New Director (Migliore Regista Esordiente) Donato Carrisi[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Vivarelli, Nick (16 May 2016). "Italy's Colorado Films Launches New Thriller Shingle With Best-Seller 'The Whisperer'". Variety. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- Chiara Ugolini, "'La ragazza nella nebbia', il thriller di debutto di Carrisi: La storia amata dai miei lettori", la Repubblica, 24 October 2017 (in Italian) - ^ Davide Turrini, "La Ragazza nella nebbia, Carrisi può aspirare a Hollywood e Alessio Boni si mangia Toni Servillo", il Fatto Quotidiano, 25 October 2017 (in Italian)
- ^ "LA RAGAZZA NELLA NEBBIA". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
External links[]
- 2017 films
- Italian-language films
- 2017 crime thriller films
- Italian films
- Italian crime thriller films
- 2017 directorial debut films
- Films based on Italian novels
- Poliziotteschi films
- Films about police officers
- Italian psychological thriller films
- 2017 psychological thriller films
- Films set in the Alps
- Films set in Italy
- Rainbow S.r.l. films
- 2010s Italian film stubs