Moments and images of confusion and suspended time are intricately woven throughout the movie: a sponge slowly moving through dishwater, intermittent flashes of a street lamp in a car at night, extreme close-ups under blue and gray light. It’s psycho-drama lite, grounded in a quietly intense portrait of how a girl, her family and a small town grapple with the ugliness of sexual violence.īianco and her cinematographer Ava Berkofsky (HBO’s Insecure) intentionally pepper the film with visuals that are hard to make out at first, mirroring the state of Mandy’s memory of her trauma. Her life is upended, she becomes a pariah at school and we spend the rest of the pic trying to figure out exactly what happened.Īided by down-to-earth portrayals and a compelling cinematographic throughline that echoes the both ordinary and complex nature of this kind of violence, Share blurs genre lines between coming-of-age drama and thriller. The next day, she receives multiple texts of a video of her being assaulted while blackout drunk it is unclear exactly who the perpetrators are.
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The film Share, from first-time writer-director Pippa Bianco, tells a similar story, only her movie - acutely aware of the #MeToo climate in which it emerges - is told from the victim’s perspective.īased on Bianco’s 2015 short of the same name, Share is an immersive teen drama about Mandy (played by British newcomer Rhianne Barreto), a high schooler who wakes up face down in her front yard after a night of partying with friends that she doesn’t remember.
Six years ago, when two high-school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, raped a 16-year-old girl and texted video of the assault to their friends, the case was among the first of its kind to go viral on social media and subsequently spark national outrage and eventual prosecution.
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