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Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Using confessional phone video, a camera crew, security camera footage and television news, Itô weaves together a personal story with far reaching implications.
- Excerpt: Itô’s determination to tell her story as a journalist and survivor is the ineradicable truth that survives even the most devastating trauma.
- Excerpt: The only way to save herself was to speak out and the only way to honor her craft was to become the apparatus necessary to be heard. It’s a devastating account that reveals the heroes and villains in short order and without ambiguity.
- Excerpt: Because filmmaker Shiori Ito is both survivor and journalist, and recorded her own investigation into her assault in real time, the documentary becomes a thrilling testament to her exceptional, tenacious agency in the face of a hostile world.
- Excerpt: Ground-breaking film work, “Black Box Diaries” is personal with full access to Shiori and the emotional repercussions of her abuse.
- Excerpt: It’s a taut real-life thriller, bracingly told. The occasional narrative confusion notwithstanding—including some of the murky details of Yamaguchi’s countersuit—the effect is to shock and inspire in equal measure.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
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