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Sundance Film Festival 2000: "Official Nominee"
 Sundance
Review
"There are few subjects as abhorrent to our sensibilities
as incest, particularly when it involves very young children,
and Just, Melvin chronicles a truly monstrous
case. The film tells the story of an individual whose path of
destruction was so insidious and devastating that it's almost
impossible not to be provoked to feelings as varied as sympathy,
rage, and disgust. That this is not an account by an outsider
but the story of a survivor makes it all the more remarkable
and significant, but not any easier to digest... That the filmmaker
was the subject of abuse and managed to 'escape' his madly dysfunctional
upbringing is only one of the many elements that make this film
so intriguing. But Just, Melvin is a story
that will never have a happy ending, a chilling and candid portrait
of the cycles and consequences of abuse." Read
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-- Geoffrey Gilmore |
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