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Black for Remembrance

Black for Remembrance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 9, 1995

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Thriller, Mystery

User Score

57%

Original Title

Noir comme le souvenir

Production Companies

Odessa Films, Koala Films, France 2 Cinéma, M6 Films, Les Productions JMH, Neue Bioskop Film

Director

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Description

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.