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enters the realm of drama as if born to it. The movie, based on a true story that began in 2010 , is about a desperate, bedraggled mother of three on Long Island, Mari Gilbert , who learns that her oldest daughter, Shannan, who’s around 20 and has been living and working as a prostitute out of Jersey City, N.J., has gone missing.
“Lost Girls” is built around an aggrieved mother’s obsession to learn, at any cost, what happened to her child, and it may remind you of other mystery dramas rooted in the squalid dangers of the sex industry — earnest my-daughter-was-a-hooker TV movies, Hollywood thrillers both good and bad. It also has links to Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
As a storyteller, Garbus works with a no-fuss rhythm and flow, holding the audience in the palm of her hand. Yet “Lost Girls,” following the ups and downs of the actual case, is conceived and staged to be a kind of anti-thriller. It has genuine suspense, but in a way that undermines our expectations. Shannan had told Mari that she was going to come over, and when she never shows Mari doesn’t think twice about it. But 48 hours later the dread starts to flood in.
takes the serial-killer thriller and turns it on its head, insisting that we see the victims as larger than the crimes that destroyed them.Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 28, 2020. MPAA Rating: R. Running time:: A Netflix release of an Archer Gray, Langley Park Pictures production. Producers: Anne Carey, Kevin McCormick. Executive producers: Amy Nauiokas, Vinay Singh, Rory Koslow, Carrie Fix.: Director: Liz Garbus. Screenplay: Michael Werwie. Camera: Igor Martinovic.
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