This powerful film rails against a legal system that so often fails victims of sexual assault. It is a vivid, intimate – and ultimately redemptive – look at trauma
In March, the BBC aired W Kamau Bell’s thought-provoking four-part series, We Need to Talk About Cosby, which saw the standup and author interviewing a wide range of people. He asked them what it means to have grown up with Bill Cosby, once affectionately known as “America’s Dad”, and what it means to grapple with that now, when more than 60 women have come forward to accuse him of sexually assaulting them. It was a cerebral documentary about race and culture, and it was, as the title promised, a difficult conversation about a very public figure.
Now, here is The Case Against Cosby, which takes a much more straightforward true-crime approach. This two-part documentary is based on The Moment, a memoir written by Andrea Constand, who is the only woman able to gain a conviction against Cosby, on three counts of aggravated sexual assault. The story is told from the perspective of several other survivors, and at times, it is aimed directly at anybody who has survived sexual assault. But Constand is at the heart of this, and she describes her experiences with Cosby with courage and utter clarity.
