Not a pretty picture
Blu-ray - 2024
Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge's experience of rape in her adolescence, the film casts Michele Manenti (also a survivor) as the director₂s younger self and observes the actor and her castmates as they engage in a profound dialogue about what it means to recreate these traumatic memories, and about their attitudes concerning consent and self-blame. A high stakes experiment in meta cinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape, Not a Pretty Picture brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of a...rtistic catharsis.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Autobiographical films
Documentary-style films
Fiction films
Feature films
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
Docufictions
Films de fiction - Published
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[United States] :
Criterion Collection
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
Full frame. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; Full frame, mono sound; requires Blu-ray player.
- ISBN
- 9798886071757