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This drama, divided into five discrete chapters, takes a peek at how the discovery of a dead girl's body disrupts the already-fucked-up lives of five otherwise unrelated women. It has that Larry-Davidian circular connectivity that brings everything together by the end, but thankfully without crossing into another perfectly rounded Crash cheesefest. A talented cast balances out how exaggeratedly helpless the women are portrayed, and the surprising lack of gore and slasher violence that the title might suggest is refreshing.
The pacing at times is reminiscent of the weekend G train or perhaps more appropriately, a post-stroke Detective Columbo still exhaustively sniffing around for clues – but the movie, ultimately, certainly delivers, leaving viewers with uncomfortable, lingering and depressing images of teenage runaways, rape, abuse, murder, and love.
Opens December 29
The pacing at times is reminiscent of the weekend G train or perhaps more appropriately, a post-stroke Detective Columbo still exhaustively sniffing around for clues – but the movie, ultimately, certainly delivers, leaving viewers with uncomfortable, lingering and depressing images of teenage runaways, rape, abuse, murder, and love.
Opens December 29
