The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane

It's devastating. In some ways it felt like a violation... It left me feeling like I had watched a snuff film.

If the film's existence in any way speeds up a ban on the so-called "rough sex" defence, and helps to spare another family from having to sit through a trial in which that is deployed, then it will have achieved a great deal.

Helena Coan's not only chillingly recounts the details leading to the death of Grace, the young and vibrant British tourist murdered in Australia, but also is meant to hold a mirror up to a society with a problem of violence towards women.

"Part of the film’s effectiveness lies in the iceberg-style storytelling, which respects the audience’s intelligence by showing and addressing crime scene evidence without detailing the grisly specifics."

Struggling to remember this particular news story? That’s an underlying point of this gripping documentary, that Millane’s murder sounds like so many other tragedies of “women doing things alone." [...] Coan’s doc reveals itself like a horror film.

What this documentary doesn't seem to care about ... is Grace Millane...