It took Evan Rachel Wood years to muster the courage to name her abuser. A lot of people knew who he was, divorced from her, because of his job, his public persona, his notorious reputation — controversial, provocative, fundamentally harmful.
Amy Berg’s “Phoenix Rising,” the documentary in which Wood, a well-respected actor and now activist, tells her story, was never about a sudden revelation or a twist in the tale about what happened to her — but the details, the calm with which she retells these events, is still impossibly harrowing.
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