Toni Servillo

Jean Reno

Alessio Boni

Lorenzo Richelmy

Galatea Ranzi

Michela Cescon

Greta Scacchi

Jacopo Olmo Antinori

Lucrezia Guidone

Daniela Piazza

Antonio Gerardi

Thierry Toscan

Ekaterina Buscemi

Marina Occhionero

Sabrina Martina

Pietro Faiella

Massimo Rigo

Massimo Sacilotto

Alberto Paradossi

Vito Lo Re

Roy Bava

Fabio Lucchetti

Massimo Quaglia

Tonino Zera

Simona Castaldi

Donato Carrisi

Maurizio Totti

Antonio Tacchia

Valeria Miranda

Stefano Fenocchi

Laura Biagiotti

Andrea Grazzani

Marco Lassalaz

Federico Masiero

Salvatore Ruberto

Stefano Di Pasquali

Alessandro Usai

Patrizia Chericoni

Luca Dell'Oro

Rachel Okine

Gilberto Martinelli

Luca John Rosati

Mystery

Thriller

Crime

La ragazza nella nebbia

Medusa Film

Colorado Film

Gavila

Sky Cinema

StudioCanal

France

Italy

**_Whodunit in a northern Italy hamlet_**  

After a girl goes missing in a remote village in the Italian Alps, a renowned detective that resorts to dubious methods to apprehend his prey (Toni Servillo) is brought in to solve the possible crime. Alessio Boni plays a teacher who falls under suspicion while Jean Reno is on hand as a psychologist. 

An Italian production, “The Girl in the Fog” (2017) is a psychological whodunit mystery reminiscent of films like “The Clovehitch Killer” (2018), “Lantana” (2001), “The River King” (2005) and “Snow Angels” (2007). While it’s good, it’s the least of these due to a TV-movie vibe where the northern Italy locations are rarely taken advantage of and the focus is on indoor sets with relative close-ups.

Another issue is the last act’s explanation of everything that’s going on, which takes some serious suspension of disbelief (no spoilers). The motive of the antagonist is weak, the scheme too elaborate and the coincidence of a notable person living in that area, plus linked to the case, is simply not believable.

Still, it’s dramatically compelling up to that point and I liked the emphasis on the media fleshing out clues & the culprit (or, just as likely, creating a witch hunt); even the climax is clever as long as you understand that you're watching an alternative reality.   

The film runs 2 hours, 8 minutes, and was shot Alto Adige, Italy. It was not dubbed in English so, if you don’t speak Italian and you’re an English-speaker, you’ll have to use the subtitles.

GRADE: B-

Italiano

The Girl in the Fog

The Girl in the Fog (La Ragazza nella nebbia) (Official US Trailer)