Caniba 2017 -

★★★★☆ (4/5) – A masterwork of unsettling form; a litmus test for the ethics of documentary practice.

Caniba is not a documentary for information but for experience . It refuses to explain why Sagawa killed and ate Renée Hartevelt. Instead, it immerses the viewer in the texture of a life that contains that act—a life of frailty, dependency, quiet recollection, and brotherly devotion. caniba 2017

Caniba is a non-fiction film that examines the daily life and psyche of Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who, in 1981, murdered and cannibalized a Dutch classmate, Renée Hartevelt, in Paris. Found unfit for trial due to insanity, Sagawa was institutionalized in France, later deported to Japan, and released from a Japanese hospital in 1986. He subsequently became a minor celebrity, authoring books and making media appearances until his death in 2022. ★★★★☆ (4/5) – A masterwork of unsettling form;