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The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt

The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt

TV-MA

A tedious disappearance and murder case marred by incompetence

7.0

TV Show

Italy
Italian
Crime, Documentary
2024
Massimo Bossetti

TLDR

Sometimes if you say something’s like a movie, idiots start treating it like one.

What it's about

This docuseries covers the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio, and the grueling investigative efforts and media circus behind it.

The take

Many in this docuseries acknowledge that the developments to this case feel very much “like a movie.” Maybe that’s why the filmmakers leaned into that presentation style with the twists, phone conversation voiceovers, and jumping timelines. It’s a decent storytelling choice, but it also feels like the shock factor and media hullabaloo is the focus of the film sometimes. Much of the runtime is dedicated to the role of the media, which served as a tremendously unhelpful distraction to the investigation; thus giving the series a sense of focus on the one hand, but also weighing the series down with too much details and fluff cinema.

What stands out

At some point you can’t in good conscience call them the media, they're dirt sheets.

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