Casting JonBenet
Evolves into a layered meditation on many things - crime and guilt, the exploitation of children and acting itself, to name just a few.
Casting JonBenet
Casting JonBenet is a sly and stylized exploration of the world’s most sensational child-murder
case, the still unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. After
years of media speculation and public fascination, audiences are presented with a documentary
hybrid examining the macabre legacy of this tiny starlet. Over 15 months, the filmmakers
traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses, reflections and even
performances from the local community. In doing so, Casting JonBenet examines how this
crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive
generations of parents and children.
case, the still unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. After
years of media speculation and public fascination, audiences are presented with a documentary
hybrid examining the macabre legacy of this tiny starlet. Over 15 months, the filmmakers
traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses, reflections and even
performances from the local community. In doing so, Casting JonBenet examines how this
crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive
generations of parents and children.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
81
Language
English
Director
Kitty Green
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
On December 26, 1996, six-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in her Boulder home, strangled and her skull crushed. The case has never been solved, but plenty of theories emerged, and Kitty Green’s compelling documentary experiment “Casting JonBenet” hovers in the thick of ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 4.28.17 - 5.04.17
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