Not a pretty picture

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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 co...

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Coolidge, Martha Drama

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Rape victims Interviews

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Autobiographical films Documentary films Documentary-style films Drama Feature films Fiction films Interviews Nonfiction films Social problem films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1230 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 1230

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ISBN:

9798886071764

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations)
4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
mono
Dolby digital 1.0
DVD
video file
DVD video
Region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975
Accompanied by insert (1 folded sheet)
Essay in accompanying insert: An act of reckoning / by Molly Haskell
Program content: ©1975
Director-approved DVD special edition 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
Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk, John Fedinatz, Amy Wright
Featuring Martha Coolidge
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation (4:3); Dolby digital mono sound

Control Number:

3355237

UPC:

715515300612

Other Authors:

Carrington, Jim, actor
Coolidge, Martha, film director, film producer, on-screen participant, screenwriter
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Griffith, Tom (Composer), composer (expression)
Haskell, Molly. Act of reckoning
Manenti, Michele, actor, on-screen participant
Mundstuk, Anne, actor

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