City Girl (1984 film)
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All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Sean Burns WBUR’s Arts & Culture. As we watch the movie being made, we’re also witnessing an artist finding catharsis in the act of...
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, an acting exercise, a personal exorcism and a powerful political tract. Read More. By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW. 40.
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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, an acting...
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 ...
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.
- Martha at Sixteen
100% Tomatometer 5 Reviews In this pseudo-documentary, director Martha Coolidge presents a staging of a traumatic event from her youth. As a teenager, Coolidge was raped by a boarding school ...
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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.
