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Extensive discussion of sexual assault ahead. Not a Pretty Picture is one of the best, most harrowing movies I've seen in a very long time. The first feature by Martha Coolidge, it masquerades as a fictional retelling of her rape as a 16-year-old boarding school student, but is in fact far more complex, blending fiction with rehearsal footage and interviews, with Coolidge, now slightly more ...
Blurring the line between documentary and storytelling, Martha Coolidge’s compelling meta-narrative examines her own sexual assault in high school by a fellow classmate. Coolidge enlists actors to recreate the circumstances surrounding her rape and interviews her former roommate to illuminate the consequences and complexities of its aftermath.
8 dic 2022 · “This film is based on incidents in the director’s life. The actress who plays Martha was also raped when she was in high school. Names and places have been changed.” Thus begins the harrowing and uniquely personal 1976 16mm feature Not a Pretty Picture by director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl).
8 apr 2024 · Still from the film ‘Not a Pretty Picture.' JANUS FILMS Nearly 50 years after its debut, Not a Pretty Picture not only continues to be a pioneering film when it comes to cinematographic representation of rape, abuse culture and consent , but also a work in astonishing, chilling dialogue with our present moment.
15 mar 2024 · Casi 50 años después de su estreno, Not a Pretty Picture no solo sigue siendo una película pionera en la representación cinematográfica de la cultura del abuso y la violación y el sentido ...
Not a Pretty Picture gives a very different account of high-school heterosexuality, one not coincidentally made on a much smaller budget and across the documentary/fiction divide. Based on Coolidge’s own life, this hybrid film twists the tropes of the coming-of-age story to offer an unprecedented account of date rape and its aftermath from the perspective of a survivor.
1 mar 2024 · La restauración y estreno en España de ‘Not a Pretty Picture’ pone de actualidad un filme de 1976 que se adelantó a su tiempo por reflexionar sobre la cultura de los abusos. “Nunca quise ...
