Black for Remembrance

Black for Remembrance

92 mins | Crime | Aug. 9, 1995

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.

Black for Remembrance

92 mins | Crime | Aug. 9, 1995

Black for Remembrance
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Noir comme le souvenir
Directors Jean-Pierre Mocky
Writers André Ruellan, Jean-Pierre Mocky

Cast

Jane Birkin

as Caroline

Sabine Azéma

as Lucy

Benoît Régent

as Dr. David Wahl

Matthias Habich

as Chris Corday

Alain Fourès

as Guillaume

Dominique Zardi

as un enquêteur

Jany Holt

as Geneviève

Fabienne Barraud

as la mère

Claudine Berthet

as la directrice

Jean-François Stévenin

as commissaire Vasseur

Vanessa Larré

as Garance adulte

Bénédicte Loyen

as Paméla

Marina Rollman

as Mélinda Wahl