4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The new Netflix documentary “Procession” follows Dan Laurine and five other victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, as they use drama to ease the burden of their traumatic childhoods. They write and re-enact scenes from their past — scenes that are not at all graphic but still carry a powerful emotional charge. Laurine and “Procession” director Robert Greene tell KCRW how they hope their film can help facilitate change for other survivors.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.3 | Filmmaker Robert Green makes experimental documentaries, and in his new Netflix project, |
0:10.4 | Procession, he yet again tries something new. The movie follows Dan Lurine and five other victims |
0:16.8 | of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, as they use drama to ease the burden of their traumatic childhoods. |
0:23.1 | They write and reenact scenes based on the painful past, |
0:26.1 | scenes that are not at all graphic, |
0:28.1 | but still carry a powerful emotional charge. |
0:31.1 | Lorraine is a location manager in Kansas City, |
0:34.1 | and at first he was just going to work behind the camera. |
0:36.6 | Eventually, he changed his mind, not really imagining that the film would ever have much of an audience. |
0:42.2 | It's just in the past, you know, a few months that we realize what is becoming by Netflix |
0:47.8 | actually picking this up and promoting it. |
0:50.7 | It legitimizes us. |
0:52.3 | All of our anxieties, hopes, and desires now are being turned into this idea that we could actually facilitate change and help people. |
1:01.0 | And that is such a something great to wake up to rather than hating yourself every morning. |
1:06.0 | We hear from Lorene and procession director Robert Green, who tells us about meeting with drama therapists when |
1:10.9 | he was planning the film. At first, they thought his idea was bad. But first we banter. Stick |
1:17.4 | around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:25.0 | Hi, I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany. |
1:28.2 | Hello, Matt. |
1:29.2 | Hi there. |
1:30.3 | So, Matt, I have learned a lot about the low-budget independent film world recently. |
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