This is one hard film to watch. And I mean it in a good way. It's such an intimate exploration of what a young girl experiences when she is the victim of a sexual predator. This exploration also gets up close and personal to what the parents experience. The film gets so close to what happens, you might feel physically ill like I did in the watching. It's an important film in this regard - if you are a person…

I have such a cinephile crush on Sean Baker and his films - so much so it almost hurt to watch this incredible film. It makes me sad that it took so long to get to viewing this.
Baker's voice is unique - showing us slices of Americana that Hollywood either ignores or bastardizes. He gets to the heart of resiliency and humanity of people in the margins. In this film - he goes for 2 different margins - those…

Goodness - Portuguese is a beautiful language.
I do enjoy a story about people fighting the good fight even when - or especially when the odds are not in your favor. The true story of the Paiva family keeps close to the personal. You know nothing about circumstances that brought Brazil to a military dictatorship. Just about the impact on a well-known family. And then the quiet determination of one widow to apply pressure to the government to own up…