By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 25 – What if you dropped an artistic true-crime documentary on Netflix... and few people noticed?
This seems to have taken place in late 2022 for "Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn" by Lucy Blakstad.
Despite interest in the underlying case by financial media from Bloomberg to Reuters to the Wall Street Journal, the film upon release and in the two months after was scarcely reviewed, with Le Monde being the exception.
Rotten Tomatoes has less than fifty reviews of any kind, and rates it at 20%.
Inner City Press disagrees. Viewing it on the continuum of recent crime docs on Netflix, it is less artistic than the much ballyhooed (and sued) film about Anna Delvey, and significantly better than the more-reviewed Bad Vegan.
Its one major hat-tip to the type of fiction / non-fiction blend that Inner City Press loves (see Maximum Maxwell, Hydrogen Heist about Nikola's Trevor Milton, American Ugly about Kevein Spacey and a forthcoming project about Sam Bankman-Fried) is the use of an actor / narrator, Lyna Dubarry.
All the others on camera are themselves, if only in CC-TV footage. There's Ghosn's sister Nayla Beydoun, several Nissan executive, and the widow of a man who committed suicide under Ghosn's watch at Renault.
In another artistic move, Ghosn's post-escape (or post-absconding) statement in Lebanon is show in the same intentional distortion as Inner City Press sometimes shows the United Nations noon briefing, validating the technique as one accepted along the continuum of dramatic news.
There are many more crimes that merit or could support this type of treatment; this form should be more reviewed, and more used. Watch this site.
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