A tennis pro getting ready for the US Open is visited by her estranged sister, herself a former player. The sister is not there just to reconnect, but to try and get help in going forward with sexual abuse charges against their coach.
Pointed scream against sexual abuse, FAULT is a good, if far from perfect examination of abuse and the need to survive. While the film is well acted, the plot is more than a bit over the top with the off-camera coach watching everything via CCTV cameras that are everywhere. It’s a touch that tips this film from an impassioned discussion into a screed, since it hammers home the point of how an abuser controls the abused a little forcefully. I understand that the film only runs 15 minutes but it never feels real.
While the film is good on it’s own terms it never is the game set match that it desperately wants to be.
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