When a Movie Hinges on a Kid’s Performance

The film Josephine opens with one of the most upsetting sequences in any movie this year. In it, the titular 8-year-old girl accidentally witnesses a woman being raped at a park near her home. In subsequent scenes, the filmmaker Beth de Araújo, who based the incident on an episode she experienced in childhood, carefully explores how the event affects Josephine and her family, and sheds light on larger questions: how parents can struggle to make sense of a child’s trauma, and how attempts to prot

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