Cherchet la flu Formally, "Gornostay" is a classic court drama like "Twelve" (to add "angry men" or not - it's your business). Only angry men are almost absent: among the jurors the majority are women, and the Chairman (genius Fabrice Lucini) does not pull on an angry man - but on a pedante and a bore - quite. A horrific case is being considered - a father killed a seven-month-old daughter - presumably in a fit of parental anger. Mr. Chairman everything is clear in advance, and the incipient flu and sluggish divorce do not make it softer - he usually does not give less than "tens" to his defendants, for which he received the "gentle" nickname from colleagues "double figures."
But French cinema and French cinema, in order to find a reason for melodrama in this situation, turns out to be “iron”. The chairman is actually soft and vulnerable - here he barely weaves through the mud to the pharmacy, dutifully substitutes the "fifth point" under the painful injection of the therapist, but he wrinkles resentfully, overhearing the next clashes of colleagues. And, of course, the story engine is run by a magical cherche la fam: one of the jurors is familiar to the President. The charming juror anesthesiologist (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is just an angel in the flesh: caring and gentle, holding patients' hand not because it is so for medical reasons, but because it is good. And now the terrible question - who killed little Melissa - fades into the background and blurs in lengthy conversations over a cup of cold remedy. It seems that this woman is the first to see under an ermine mantle and a ridiculous red scarf just a person - with all his weaknesses, timid desires and the flu.
And all this would be fine, if not hanging in the air legal issues – while the characters enjoy the upcoming happy ending, the potential killer of the girl except for the father can only be a bullying mother. And which of them will end up in jail for 10 years or more seems to depend on trivial things like a cold and a respectable jury falling in love.