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==Plot==
==Plot==
Anna Lou, a 16-year-old girl, disappears in the fictional remote town of Avechot, in the [[Italian Alps]] near the Swiss border. Publicity-hungry Detective Vogel is called in to lead the case. Vogel is notorious for creating sensational media coverage around the cases he investigates, and, sure enough, local newspapers and television stations are soon bearing down relentlessly on Loris Martini, a local schoolteacher who is deeply in debt and becomes the prime suspect. In his haste to get a conviction, Vogel falsifies evidence by putting the teacher's blood on the girl's backpack. When the truth is revealed, Martini is cleared and granted compensation of 1 million euros. Meanwhile, a journalist posits the theory that the latest crime is the work of a past serial killer, known as the "Fog Man".
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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.
Ultimately, it turns out that Martini did kill Anna Lou, in a copycat crime. He then deliberately planted self-incriminating clues―but never concrete evidence―in order to spur Vogel to cut corners, just as he had done in a famous earlier case. It is later revealed, in a conversation between Vogel and Dr. Flores, a psychiatrist who lives in the town, that Vogel has murdered Martini so that he cannot benefit from his crime. In a final twist, Dr. Flores is revealed to be the Fog Man.


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 11:07, 13 December 2021

The Girl in the Fog
Directed byDonato Carrisi
Written byDonato Carrisi
Produced byMaurizio Totti
Alessandro Usai
StarringToni Servillo
Alessio Boni
Jean Reno
CinematographyFederico Masiero
Edited byMassimo Quaglia
Music byVito Lo Re
Production
companies
Rainbow S.p.A.
Medusa Film
Release date
  • 26 October 2017 (2017-10-26)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Girl in the Fog (Template:Lang-it) is a 2017 Italian psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Donato Carrisi.[1]

Plot

Anna Lou, a 16-year-old girl, disappears in the fictional remote town of Avechot, in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border. Publicity-hungry Detective Vogel is called in to lead the case. Vogel is notorious for creating sensational media coverage around the cases he investigates, and, sure enough, local newspapers and television stations are soon bearing down relentlessly on Loris Martini, a local schoolteacher who is deeply in debt and becomes the prime suspect. In his haste to get a conviction, Vogel falsifies evidence by putting the teacher's blood on the girl's backpack. When the truth is revealed, Martini is cleared and granted compensation of 1 million euros. Meanwhile, a journalist posits the theory that the latest crime is the work of a past serial killer, known as the "Fog Man".

Ultimately, it turns out that Martini did kill Anna Lou, in a copycat crime. He then deliberately planted self-incriminating clues―but never concrete evidence―in order to spur Vogel to cut corners, just as he had done in a famous earlier case. It is later revealed, in a conversation between Vogel and Dr. Flores, a psychiatrist who lives in the town, that Vogel has murdered Martini so that he cannot benefit from his crime. In a final twist, Dr. Flores is revealed to be the Fog Man.

Cast

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Girl in the Fog have an approval rating of 75%, based on 8 reviews.[3]

Awards

References

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "LA RAGAZZA NELLA NEBBIA". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 10 March 2021.


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