Casting JonBenet
First screened in November 2017
Director: Kitty Green. Documentary about casting sessions for a film about murdered child/model JonBenet Ramsey, which become a de facto crowdsourcing of memories and speculations about the crime, the victim, and the perpetrators. Twitter Capsule:
Joshua Oppenheimer directs Waiting for Guffman. Flush with ideas about acting, deep pain, and tabloid conjecture.
VOR:④
Such a creative way into a moral minefield, evoking what's crucial about the case by avoiding the obvious, formally and rhetorically.
