‘Jacinta’: Film Review
At the beginning of the documentary that bears her name, 26-year-old Jacinta, daughter of Rosemary , mother of Caylynn , has been incarcerated in Maine Correctional Center, where her mother is also doing time, for eight months, with one to go.
Instead, it’s something truer, stranger and more complicated, a broad sociological study containing a Greek tragedy’s worth of inherited sins and fatal flaws, yet also a compassionate portrait of an individual who becomes increasingly differentiated from the archetype of any of her given roles.
“I wanted to be like her,” says Jacinta, introducing this bafflingly, unhealthily co-dependent relationship. “Not that I wanted to pick up her mistakes but if that’s what it took, I was willing to do it.” In and out of prison ever since, she had her own daughter, Caylynn, when she was 16. When she’s inside, she writes Caylynn letters of devotion that she doesn’t send, and covertly calls out “I love you!” to her mother’s window, although such communication between inmates is forbidden.
But Jacinta starts using again — heroin, which she calls “the best friend who doesn’t talk back.” Her slide back into addiction and criminality is mapped unsentimentally but not brutally, although there ought to be a trigger warning for injection scenes that come frequently and with shocking casualness.
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