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‘Sorry/Not Sorry’ Review: Louis C.K. Is Ready to Forgive Himself. Are We?
A New York Times documentary traces how the comedian's actions were shielded by the comedy world, and it asks key questions about his return.
— his coercive and abusive ritual of masturbating in front of women, many of whom were his comedian colleagues — was first revealed in the mainstream media nearly seven years ago, amid the tidal wave of reckoning that became #MeToo. The documentary is a production of the New York Times, and as directed by Caroline Suh and Cara Mones, it’s a meticulously sharp, responsible, and absorbing movie — an incisive study, really, of the sweep-it-under-the-rug culture that was firmly in place before the #MeToo revolution knocked some of its foundations askew. “Louie,” on FX, was greeted as the second coming, but to me it was the weekly version of an “edgy” indie film that had stray nuggets of squirm-factor hilarity but insisted, in every episode, on breaking up what was best about it — its air of authenticity — with overstatement and contrivance.
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