FilmSnobReviews

Title: An Army of Women
MPA Rating: Not Yet Rated
Director: Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Starring: Various Victim of Sexual Assault Ignored By Austin Police
Runtime: 1 hr 24 mins

What It Is: The City of Austin has failed it’s survivors of sexual assault. By not looking into crimes committed against these women the police department and the city officials in the city of Austin, Texas are being sued by these now double victims. It’s time to hold these people accountable for not doing everything in their power to assure these woman found justice for what happened to them and they and their lawyer will make sure that happens.

What We Think: This was such a sobering but necessary documentary. To think that a city would fail to look at or think about justice for it’s female victims of sexual assault seems preposterous. To think it happened that many times and that the city would fight so hard to not pay reparations for such injustice is as equally ridiculous. The light shed on this by director Julie Lunde Lillesæteris bright and needed. The journey for these women was far too long and thankfully something came of it. I won’t say what because this is a film that deserves eyeballs. Nonetheless this is a pretty simple documentary. Well put together that focuses more on it’s subject matter than it’s pomp and circumstance.

Our Grade: B, Straight forward storytelling that’s here more to inform than it is to entertain. This serves as a notice to survivors that sometimes where you live matters. What you do about it matters and that even if you feel like. your abuse and your story don’t matter that that just isn’t true. Come foward. Justice will take care of itself. You deserve it. A truly inspiring story of resiliency and perseverance.

If you or someone you know has been sexually abused help is available call: 1-800-656-4673 for the National Sexual Abuse Hotline