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Sundance 2025 Opening Weekend Highlights
There are emotionally devastating moments here, but perhaps nothing quite so disturbing as a fixed camera on Lorincz, caught in an obvious lie, trying to speak into existence the impossibility that she could be held accountable for her actions.
The Perfect Neighbor Twinless If I Had Legs I'd Kick You The Perfect Neighbor [U.S. Documentary] There are any number of ways director Geeta Gandbhir could have told a documentary story about "Stand-your-ground" laws in general, or about the particular case she's exploring—but the way she did choose proves remarkable both in its structural ingenuity and in the way it adds power to the narrative.
That story involves an incident in Florida's Marion County, in which Susan Lorincz shot her neighbor Ajike Owens through Lorincz's front door, claiming she feared for her life, and Gandbhir allows that…
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