SUNDANCE 2019 REVIEW: Sacha Polak’s DIRTY GOD offers a redemption story that doesn’t come wrapped with a pretty bow
DIRTY GOD purposefully takes a long, winding and jagged road toward Jade’s efforts to heal and find her own way to a new life she never asked for. This is not an easy redemption story that can take us comfortably across the finish line without the barest of emotional investments. Jade was assuredly not an angle cast down from the heavens, but rather, a working class beauty that is forced to overcome a fate she didn’t deserve.