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• Sundance
Film Festival 2000: "Official Nominee" |
"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 more...
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