Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Not a pretty picture / Coolidge Productions ; directed by Martha Coolidge.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

full frame

video file

DVD video

Summary:

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 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 artistic catharsis.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 1230

Criterion collection ; 1230.

Subjects:

Coolidge, Martha -- Drama.

Date rape -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Autobiographical films.

Documentary-style films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.