Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg direct Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin and Sydney Leathers in this documentary closely following NYC mayoral election campaign  of a former congressman, coming back to politics from a sexting scandal.

A difficult experience to review. The level of access and quality of footage in astounding. The portrait painted in this fly-on-the-wall investigation is actually quite sympathetic. Weiner is a diligent and passionate politician, who engages with issues and the general public with a frank easiness. He is exactly the kind of bulldog you want in the chambers of power defending your healthcare or your rights. It may all ultimately be to feed his ego but he is an intelligent and unrelenting representative for liberal, democratic politics… But his predilection for sending sex images of himself and flirting online with other women ruins his reputation twice. We see him betray his wife and hurt her publicly… twice. An intelligent, arguably more successful woman silently screaming at the horrible position her husband has put her in… again. As credits roll I was willing to give Weiner a pass. I would vote for him even if he engages in behaviour which it clearly is foolish for someone in his position to do. But then you go on his Wikipedia page, find out what has happened in the aftermath, and you are left bereft. The guy is a disaster. Let him regain some semblance of a life as far away from media scrutiny as possible.

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