Press
“‘Rewind’ rises above the familiar to the realm of the genuinely inspirational.”
“He’s chasing the ghosts that won’t let go of him... A documentary like this one has the effect of a moral thriller.”
“Rewind,” as indelibly as any film ever made, illustrates how the very process of investigating your own past can be a trauma unto itself. ” [A-]
"It’s a saga about perseverance and bravery, two qualities that Neulinger—then, and now—exhibits in spades.
“A deeply personal, revealing, and unforgettable piece of filmmaking… Neulinger’s courageous documentary transcends his own specific story to become something greater about healing, cycles of abuse, and how closely we have to listen to our children and watch their behavior in order to protect them.”
“‘Rewind’ could only be made by this filmmaker in this way, and that gives it an unsettling fascination.”
“It's a film that helps outsiders confront the horrifying ways such events can cause damage for decades after the fact.”
“Neulinger remains undaunted and relentless but also artful, as he shows how cinema can both conceal and reveal, how it can evade the truth, or confront it, and by so doing transcend it.”
- PETER KEOUGH, THE BOSTON GLOBE
“Somehow in documenting the family’s unraveling, Neulinger comes to show the strength that certain members were able to give to another… there is tremendous power in seeing the filmmaker taking the bad to make some good out of it, capturing the best and worst that humans are capable of in one brave and truly exceptional film.”
- STEPHEN SAITO, THE MOVEABLE FEST
“It’s a level of bravery that few of us can muster, but an inspiration to anyone who has ever faced the same challenges. Talk about a superhero.”
“Neulinger’s film, like any great documentary, maintains a steady drip of details whose importance are only revealed later... Rewind not only offers the story of a victim’s ordeal, but a brave and resilient spirit.”
- ROBERT DANIELS, 812 FILM REVIEWS
“Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s wrenching surival story is an astounding documentary on sexual abuse trauma… The utter honesty behind these scenes could only be captured in a documentary.”