"Lost Girls," the most prominent cinematic take on the Gilgo murders, announces exactly what it will be in its opening seconds: a shot of a silhouetted Shannan Gilbert running frantically, followed shortly by a title card that says: "An unsolved American mystery."
It's an immediate way to prepare Netflix audiences (the movie starts streaming on Friday) for a reality Long Islanders already know _ that more than nine years after the first remains were found in the area, police have not made an arrest over the 10 remains found there _ and it's also a tool for director Liz Garbus, a renowned documentarian ("What Happened, Miss Simone?") making her narrative feature filmmaking debut, to prepare audiences for the reality that "Lost Girls" has no catharsis to offer.
"One of the big attractions of this film is that it's not a typical mystery thriller whodunit where we're following clues that the police find, and then we're going to catch the serial killer and learn about him," says star Amy Ryan (Oscar-nominated for 2007's "Gone Baby Gone," "The Office," "Birdman").
