![]() ![]() The narrative turns back to the day after the disappearance, told from Martini’s point of view. There is also the mystery of several girls with red hair like Anna Lou, who disappeared from the area 30 years earlier. Vogel’s attention turns to a damaged young man who followed Anna Lou around with his camcorder and then to Martini, a teacher at her school. People only care about the arrest of a criminal in the belief they will be safe, and that is what he will do. He knows that the public will soon stop caring about pure Anna Lou’s fate and will turn angry and vengeful. Vogel understands he must give the media something and soon he has two suspects in his sights to feed to the wolves. The one person Vogel can’t control is his adversary Mayor, the female prosecutor who has a brain and refuses to allow him to act on pure rumour and intuition without hard evidence.Īs the media exposure intensifies the locals start to keep their distance, but the wider public appetite for the case is ravenous. ![]() ![]() He is also desperate to restore his own reputation by solving the case. He relishes the idea of evil striking a God-fearing community. He hides much of the evidence he finds and is a master broadcaster of fake news, releasing just what he wants while maintaining control for his own advantage. Vogel will do anything to solve the mystery and take credit. Vogel’s sidekick Borghi is an inexperienced officer and a man of integrity, but he is under Vogel’s influence even though he suspects his boss is a control freak who wants all the attention on him. The public responds by laying hundreds of toy kittens and floral tributes around the house, while local people help search the barren mountainsides and rivers for signs of Anna Lou. Vogel is also an arch manipulator of the media and soon has an army of reporters at the scene, hoping whoever has taken Anna Lou will be flushed out. A previous case had called his methods into question when he planted evidence to nail his man, dubbed The Manipulator, who served four years in jail before he was cleared. He is fastidious about his clothing, lining up his immaculate ties and expensive suits in order by colour. Right from the beginning of Vogel’s investigation we are uneasy about him. Her parents are fervent members of the brotherhood sect and are strictly devoted to God. Vogel begins telling his story, propelling us back to two days after the disappearance of Anna Lou Kastner, the too-good-to-be true innocent girl who loves kittens and has no vices. Vogel is arrested and psychiatrist Dr Flores is summoned to assess whether the confused special agent is fully aware of what has happened, and whether he is responsible for a murder. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of 8 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10.Translated by Howard Curtis - Two months after a 15-year-old girl goes missing in the fog while on the way to church in an Italian alpine town, the chief investigator of the case, Detective Vogel is in hospital following a road accident. The detective's old adversary in the form of a righteous female journalist appears, just to pile on the pressure.Ī popular and respected local high school teacher becomes the focus of his interest and a cat and mouse game ensues.īut is the teacher really innocent - and a serial killer on the loose? The policeman in charge of the investigation has a track record of not letting innocence get in the way of a solid arrest, especially when the public and the media are baying for a result. It draws one into the world of its characters to question his own moral assumptions.Ī 16 year old girl goes missing in an isolated region and suddenly the males of the small village are under scrutiny. The Girl in the Fog is a psychological thriller. 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.
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