It has already received a five-star review.
A few months ago, we told you that Netflix acquired the worldwide rights to Kitty Green’s upcoming documentary, ‘Casting JonBenet‘.
The trailer has just been released and we’re set to reexamine one of the most riveting real life murder cases in US history.
In 1996, Boulder, Colorado was rocked by the mysterious death of six-year-old pageant queen, JonBenet Ramsey. Two decades later, director Kitty Green returns to audition local actors, unpacking how each remembers and relates to the ill-fated Ramsey family.
Over 15 months, the filmmakers traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses, reflections and even performances from the local community. In doing so, Casting JonBenet examines how this crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive generations of parents and children.
We’re told that the documentary will be a darkly moving exploration of crime, guilt and personal bias.
Casting JonBenet has already screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a five-star review from The Guardian who have described it as “a brilliant original” while The Hollywood Reporter believe that it has already expanded “the formal horizons of documentary”.
The film arrives on Netflix on April 28th.
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