Not a pretty picture

Coolidge, Martha (film director,, film producer,, on-screen participant,, screenwriter,, editor of moving image work.). Manenti, Michele, (actor,, on-screen participant.). Carrington, Jim (actor.). Mundstuk, Anne, (actor.). Murphy, Fred, 1942- (director of photography.). Pettit, Suzanne, 1948-1998 (editor of moving image work.). Griffith, Tom (Composer), (composer (expression)). Haskell, Molly. Act of reckoning. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk, John Fedinatz, Amy Wright. (Cast).

Summary: 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, the film brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic catharsis.

Record details

ISBN: 9798886071764
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations).
videodisc
Edition: Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:	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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Cinematography, Don Lenzer, Fred Murphy ; editor, Suzanne Pettit, Martha Coolidge ; composer of original music, Tom Griffith.
Participant or Performer Note:	Featuring Martha Coolidge. Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk, John Fedinatz, Amy Wright.
System Details Note:	DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation (4:3); Dolby digital mono sound.
Language Note:	In English.