Casting JonBenet

    Casting JonBenet
    2017

    Synopsis

    Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

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    Cast

    • Hannah CagwinSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Aeona CruzSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Liv BagleySelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Shylee SagleSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Danika ToolsonSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Emma WinslowSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Elle WalkerSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Kaydence LuceroSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee
    • Nicole HamiltonSelf - JonBenet Ramsey Auditionee / JonBenet Ramsey Dance Double
    • Kit ThompsonSelf - Patsy Ramsey Auditionee

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      This isn’t really a film in search of a definitive truth – it’s a deliberate provocation to the conventional notion of truth in the age of media frenzies over salacious crime.
    • 100

      Screen Daily

      The mirror it holds up to its subjects — and perhaps the audience — is incredibly, sometimes painfully illuminating.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Kitty Green creates something powerful, provocative and dazzlingly original with her second feature.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      When the concept really clicks, Casting JonBenet operates as a darkly entertaining look at how gossip can fuel legend to the point where truth loses its relevance.
    • 80

      CineVue

      Blending and bending genres to highlight the elusiveness of the truth, Green's avant-garde documentary presents the audience with a wealth of interviewees, each giving their own account of how the murder was reported.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Green's doc — like the case at its center — defies resolution or easy answers.
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      The film ends on a strangely moving theatrical exercise, as the various performers gather together on a soundstage recreation of the Ramsey home to dramatize all the major theories in tandem, creating an overlapping spectacle of speculative horror.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      A clever filmmaking experiment? Without a doubt. A satisfying one? Not so much.

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