Girl In The Picture is a true crime documentary about the life and death Suzanne Sevakis. The movie is stitched together from talking head interviews, archival footage, and reenactments and uses an animated timeline as a framing device(the same device used in the recent We Need To Talk About Cosby and Keep Sweet: Prey and Obey among others). The movie opens on the mysterious death of "Tonya" in Oklahoma then cuts back and forth in chronology as her life is revealed.
A fascinating but sad story is layed out with significant energy and pathos and is notable in that its focus is mostly on Sevakis and unraveling the mystery of her life and honoring it and the criminal Franklin Delano Floyd is given only minor time and attention.
The construction of the movie itself is relatively standard, with the true crime boom of the last decade it seems these kinds of movies and series are being churned out pell-mell and although the individual stories may be powerful or interesting the craft has moved toward a sameness that renders them, from a visual standpoint, generic.
Upper third in the true crime offerings but lacking much in the way of cinematic identity.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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