Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Josephine” took home both the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: Dramatic — the first film to win both honors since the best picture nominee “Minari” in 2021 and the eventual best picture winner “Coda” in 2022. It’s an increasingly rare achievement that signals not just critical acclaim, but profound audience resonance.
Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge called the film a “standout” of the festival, writing in his review, “‘Josephine’ dares to confront the life-shattering intersection of sex and violence in our culture, facing the toughest of ‘adult situations’ with clear eyes.” He went on to praise the storytelling choices of writer-director Beth de Araújo, noting, “Instead of…
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