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‘Baby Doe’ Review: Devastating Doc Does Justice to an Inconceivable Crime of Infanticide
'Jacinta' director Jessica Earnshaw compassionately covers a case of infanticide that is unimaginable to everyone, including the woman who gave birth.
Traveling to Northeast Ohio for her tremendous second feature “ Baby Doe,” she ventures into the kind of working class, deeply religious enclave that is typically overlooked in America, or at least often reduced to stereotypes in its depiction on screen. Her equally harrowing debut “Jacinta” saw her camera roam around the grounds of a prison, and the director has similar free rein here, meeting with Gail and her family well ahead of a court trial where she faces a life sentence for the murder of the baby. A particularly telling moment comes when Mark remembers thinking that none of the sex they had before marriage was infringing on the purity expected of them; he didn’t want to get married until he could buy a house to start a family in and they were deep into a committed relationship.
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