Not a pretty picture / produced and directed by Martha Coolidge ; written by Martha Coolidge.
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 o...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Director-approved Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1230. |
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| Summary: | 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 meta cinema 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 catharsis. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Essay in accompanying insert: An act of reckoning / by Molly Haskell. 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. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations) |
| Format: | Blu-ray; region A; full screen presentation (4:3); LPCM mono sound; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Don Lenzer, Fred Murphy ; editor, Suzanne Pettit, Martha Coolidge ; composer of original music, Tom Griffith. |
| ISBN: | 9798886071757 |
| Participant or Performer: | Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk, John Fedinatz, Amy Wright. Featuring Martha Coolidge. |
| Language: | In English. |
| Accessibility Note: | Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |