Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, a new doc on the stand-up’s chronic sexual improprieties — and eventual comeback — doesn’t pretend to know the answer
There are also extended segments centered around Abby Schachner, one of the women who spoke about how she allegedly heard C.K. masturbating while speaking to her over the phone for theand was screamed at by one of the fest’s executives.
“People ask, ‘Where do you draw the line?'” Schur notes, before saying, “I don’t know,Suh admitted that as a big fan of C.K.’s work and “a member of Generation X,” she found her own reaction to the scandal to be contradictory and confusing, and that a big reason for wanting to make the film was to untangle her own feelings about all of this. That sense of uncertainty carries over into the doc itself.
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