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The HBO feature about a 16-year-old who discovers her assault has gone viral is a stunningly immersive work.
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For the 87-minute duration of , there’s barely a moment when the camera isn’t absorbed in capturing Mandy (played by Rhianne Barreto). At the beginning of the movie, when Mandy comes to while lying facedown on the lawn outside her parents’ house, the first glimpse of her exposes her fingers, alien and abstractly arranged among blades of grass. When she goes inside to take a shower, the camera captures her silently processing her physical state—the bruises on her

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