Netflix's Lost Girls seeks justice for victims of an unsolved crisis
), a single mother whose daughter goes missing. Frustrated by the lack of progress in the case, Mari takes matters into her own hands, only to uncover a much bigger crisis of young sex workers who’ve disappeared, with cops not doing much about it.
Garbus, Ryan, and costars Miriam Shor, Oona Laurence, and Lola Kirke gathered to discuss the film’s issues and hopeful impact on Monday afternoon in Park City, Utah, as part of the EW x NRDC Sundance Film Festival Panel Series. As they said out of the gate, one thing aboutis quite clear: There remains a severe lack of justice for too many women and victims of this tragedy.
is based on the 2013 book by Robert Kolker which brought the stories of Mari and other mothers and daughters to light — and, in its multifaceted portrait of sex-workers, destigmatized a particular group of women. “The depth of injustice is always completely shocking and jaw-dropping,” says Kirke, who plays a woman affected by the crimes in more ways than one. “That’s something that was really clear to me in the book….
The movie is dark, unsettling, and, by the nature of its story, unresolved. But there remains a glimmer of hope in what Mari was able to achieve, even if she never got the answers she deserved. “This person who was continually told she was powerless, who actually was powerless, at the bottom rung of that ladder made a huge difference,” Shor reminds. “Those women’s bodies were found because Mari Gilbert wouldn’t stop.
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