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Country. United States. Language. English. Not a Pretty Picture is a 1976 American docudrama film. The film was written, produced and directed by Martha Coolidge, marking her narrative feature film directorial debut, after years of working as a documentary filmmaker in the early to mid-1970s.
Mar 31, 1976 · Not a Pretty Picture: Directed by Martha Coolidge. With Reed Birney, James Carrington, John Fedinatz, Diana Gold. Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way, the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape, dissecting the characters and circumstances around it.
A high-stakes experiment in metacinema 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.
Feb 1, 2024 · Feb. 1, 2024. Made nearly half a century ago and long hiding in plain sight, Martha Coolidge’s “Not a Pretty Picture” is at once an autobiographical documentary, a Pirandellian psychodrama,...
Realizing documentary’s potential to foster catharsis and interpersonal dialogue, Not a Pretty Picture stands as one of the genre’s boldest and most revelatory experiments in metacinema. Book Now.
Not a Pretty Picture. On Screen NYC. February 2nd 2024. By. Stephanie Monohan. In 1975, one year before Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture premiered at The Whitney Museum of American Art, feminist journalist and activist Susan Brownmiller coined the term “date rape.”
Jul 22, 2022 · Not a Pretty Picture. By Richard Brody. July 22, 2022. In her courageous and ingenious first feature, from 1975, the director Martha Coolidge dramatizes events from her own life, when she...
