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MissA -> RE: The New Bettie Page Movie (4/27/2006 10:38:36 AM)
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Here's some of the actual review, I was wrong though - she didn't say it made her look like a victim the review did.
"We recently had the somewhat surreal experience of attending a private screening for The Notorious Bettie Page...it was a rough night for Harron [the director]...owing to the presence of the outspoken octegenarian Ms. Page herself, who pronounced the film "a pack of lies," of which she never wished to speak again...
...the film is basically a leaden downer with a cipher as its nebulous nucleus. The real Bettie Page is an opinionated, somewhat ferocious personality bearing scant resemblance to the pitiable naif Harron makes her out to be. Harron's Bettie is little more than a hapless victim of her beauty and men's swinish exploitation of her of it throughout...
...Utterly absent from this murky feminist polemic are the ambition are the ambition and drive that sustained Ms. Page through two decades in front of the camera, as well as any real insight into the conservative political forces that brought her low, along with her patrons, the klaws..."
(Taken from Taboo magazine review by Ernest Greene)
It does give credit to Gretchen Mol (Bettie) and the recreations of the 50's photoshoots. I imagine those alone make the movie worth seeing.
~Ms. A~
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