Documentary gives voice to the women affected by Louis C.K.’s misconduct without offering satisfying answers.
“Sorry/Not Sorry” opens with a voice: “I love you, be a good dog, please.” We will later learn the voice belong to artist and comedian Abby Schachner, one of five women who, in 2017,of sexual misconduct, including masturbating in front of them. It’s a telling opener, signaling that this documentary examination of the scandal and its aftermath, focusing on Schachner — a friend of C.K.
Produced by the New York Times, which broke the story, and with its authors Melena Ryzik, Cara Buckley and Jodi Kantor appearing on camera and listed as consulting producers, “Sorry” sticks a finger in a wound that, for some of those involved, hasn’t quite healed.
Maybe it’s because C.K.’s subsequent behavior has left the sense of doublespeak implicit in the film’s title. “,” C.K. admitted in a sheepish mea culpa released one day after the Times article ran. It was followed by an apparent period of atonement: “I will now step back and take a long time to listen,” he wrote. But his silence lasted a mere nine months before he popped back up with an unannounced appearance at the Comedy Cellar in New York in August of 2018.
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