In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these twelve people, a case that ultimately invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
Acting
Meaney plays Bailey with slippery charisma that destabilizes everything
Direction
Sheridan directs himself as juror, blurring reality into pure meta-theater
Writing
Script weaponizes reasonable doubt until you trust no one, not even yourself
Director
Jim Sheridan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sophie Toscan du Plantier case has haunted Irish true crime for nearly 30 years, with Netflix's 'Sophie: A Murder in West Cork' already exhausting the documentary format—this fiction intervention asks why we're still watching.
Sheridan previously explored Irish injustice in 'In the Name of the Father'; here he seems to question whether any film about real tragedy can avoid becoming its own kind of exploitation.
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