The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 91m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor
Synopsis:
From the vantage of her arraignment as a witness in the Senate hearings on deviant pornography, Bettie Page looks back on her life and career posing for photographs of a 'lewd or obscene nature'.
Review:
The interest of this gentle, partial biopic lies in the fact that the consumers of porn appear as harmless eccentrics or ordinary Joes, and its purveyors more as surrogate family than as cold-hearted employers. It is the prehistory that is imbued with male violence and abused trust. It is at times endearingly tame in its depiction of what was once considered insidious filth, in a way that is entirely accurate in an era when, after all, 'a bit of shadow' below the navel was taboo. Mol is fabulous in the title role, innocent, natural and a dead ringer.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 91m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor
Synopsis:
From the vantage of her arraignment as a witness in the Senate hearings on deviant pornography, Bettie Page looks back on her life and career posing for photographs of a 'lewd or obscene nature'.
Review:
The interest of this gentle, partial biopic lies in the fact that the consumers of porn appear as harmless eccentrics or ordinary Joes, and its purveyors more as surrogate family than as cold-hearted employers. It is the prehistory that is imbued with male violence and abused trust. It is at times endearingly tame in its depiction of what was once considered insidious filth, in a way that is entirely accurate in an era when, after all, 'a bit of shadow' below the navel was taboo. Mol is fabulous in the title role, innocent, natural and a dead ringer.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 91m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor
Synopsis:
From the vantage of her arraignment as a witness in the Senate hearings on deviant pornography, Bettie Page looks back on her life and career posing for photographs of a 'lewd or obscene nature'.
Review:
The interest of this gentle, partial biopic lies in the fact that the consumers of porn appear as harmless eccentrics or ordinary Joes, and its purveyors more as surrogate family than as cold-hearted employers. It is the prehistory that is imbued with male violence and abused trust. It is at times endearingly tame in its depiction of what was once considered insidious filth, in a way that is entirely accurate in an era when, after all, 'a bit of shadow' below the navel was taboo. Mol is fabulous in the title role, innocent, natural and a dead ringer.