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 director's 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 metacinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape, the film brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic ca...tharsis.--Container.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographical films
Feature films
Fiction films
Nonfiction films
Social problem films
Documentary-style films
Documentary films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special features: new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Martha Coolidge; interview with Coolidge conducted by filmmaker Allison Anders ; 'Old-fashioned woman' (1974), a documentary by Coolidge about her grandmother; on insert, an essay by film critic Molly Haskell. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; region A; full screen presentation (4:3); LPCM mono sound; requires Blu-ray player.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Don Lenzer, Fred Murphy ; editing, Suzanne Pettit, Martha Coolidge ; original music written and arranged by Tom Griffith.
- ISBN
- 9798886071757