MOUTH OF THE WOLF: AMANDA KNOX RETURNS TO ITALY
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Mouth of the Wolf, on Hulu and Disney+, is a feature documentary that follows Amanda Knox from 2019 to 2024, as she returns to Italy to find closure and confront the man who sent her to prison, face to face. Directed by Knox's husband, Christopher Robinson, and featuring original music performed by Knox, the documentary provides a extraordinarily intimate portrait of Knox's journey to rebuild her life and find peace. |
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"A cathartic documentary [that] redefines grace, forgiveness, and resilience, and is inspiring in the extreme....Complex and satisfying."
-- Keith Simanton, Critics Choice, Gold Derby "A superb and haunting film about the power of forgiveness. See it and you will never forget it." -- Barry Blaustein, DGA Best Director and Best Documentary nominee "Moving and audacious." — Mark Olshaker, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker "At a moment when the US government is detaining and even jailing so many who are innocent, Christopher Robinson’s powerful film shows how the effects of wrongful or malicious incarceration never really go away.” — Richard Peña, Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival |
Excerpt from an interview with The HollyWood Reporter
The scripted series portrayed you as being almost incredibly gracious to the man who put you in prison. I would like to think I’d be that guy, but I’d probably be forever seething. Where are you at?
KNOX I’m really excited for you to see the documentary. I’m actually really nervous about it. I’m more nervous about this coming out than The Twisted Tale because — I mean, look, my husband is taking out his camera and videotaping me when I’m having some really difficult moments. And they’re all, like, happening right now — this isn’t just this bad thing that happened to me 20 years ago, this is a thing that is happening to me right now. I am still reckoning with the pain and the hurt and the fear, and yet I feel privileged to be alive and this deep sense of like pursuit of justice that was denied. It’s a really emotional documentary because of the content, but also because of this like crazy access that my husband has…
ROBINSON There’s another person in this film who’s seething: Amanda’s mom. She’s a big, important character in the film. And like for her, Giuliano Mignini is the man who locked up her daughter, stole her daughter away. She is not at a place and probably will never be at a place where she wants to forgive that guy. She’s an important touchstone for the audience of this film because they will identify with that. I identify with that. But I also see what Amanda is doing here, and I see the superpower that she has, because she has transformed her trauma into into power, frankly. I have never seen her feel more powerful than when she walked into that meeting with her prosecutor, because she knew that if she could be kind to that man, then there was nothing that he could do to harm her, right? It just like it flipped everything on its head.
The scripted series portrayed you as being almost incredibly gracious to the man who put you in prison. I would like to think I’d be that guy, but I’d probably be forever seething. Where are you at?
KNOX I’m really excited for you to see the documentary. I’m actually really nervous about it. I’m more nervous about this coming out than The Twisted Tale because — I mean, look, my husband is taking out his camera and videotaping me when I’m having some really difficult moments. And they’re all, like, happening right now — this isn’t just this bad thing that happened to me 20 years ago, this is a thing that is happening to me right now. I am still reckoning with the pain and the hurt and the fear, and yet I feel privileged to be alive and this deep sense of like pursuit of justice that was denied. It’s a really emotional documentary because of the content, but also because of this like crazy access that my husband has…
ROBINSON There’s another person in this film who’s seething: Amanda’s mom. She’s a big, important character in the film. And like for her, Giuliano Mignini is the man who locked up her daughter, stole her daughter away. She is not at a place and probably will never be at a place where she wants to forgive that guy. She’s an important touchstone for the audience of this film because they will identify with that. I identify with that. But I also see what Amanda is doing here, and I see the superpower that she has, because she has transformed her trauma into into power, frankly. I have never seen her feel more powerful than when she walked into that meeting with her prosecutor, because she knew that if she could be kind to that man, then there was nothing that he could do to harm her, right? It just like it flipped everything on its head.