Beautifully crafted with sensitivity
Capturing The Friedmans - Feature review
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13th September 2004
A sad and tragic story of a modern day Crucible. Constructed from home movies about a family in the 1980s caught up in a sex abuse case.
I thought the film was beautifully crafted with sensitivity, given the difficult subject matter. In particular it was refreshing the filmmaker didnt use the usual voice over to move the plot along.
If there is a criticism, it is that some of the more evidential matter that further backs up Jesse's innocence is on the second DVD and wasn't included in the main film.
