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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  The Notorious Bettie PagePosted: 5/28/2006A review of The Notorious Bettie Page by Anonymous It tickles me that the real life Bettie Page doesnt like the word Notorious in the title of the new biopic based on a very controversial period of her life. To Bettie the world was filled with innocence and evil. She had experienced first hand the evil society had to offer and, in her mind, taking scantily clad and sometimes nude images was just good, clean innocent fun. Too bad her thinking was way ahead of her time.
Set in the extreme conservative throwback of post World War II America The Notorious Bettie Page is a classic example of a period piece working at its best. Not only did director Mary Harron and the talented team who brought Ms. Page so delightfully to the screen capture the look and feel of the early fifties they hit on just about every social ill plaguing the nation at the time. The film doesnt bother trying to make any criticism or comment on pornography in its current state rather it nostalgically illuminates the downright silliness of what this country used to consider obscene and personifies the media witch-hunt that our current political regime is obsessing with.
Read the rest of my review @ www.movietack.net Was this review helpful? Sign In 11 out of 16 users found this helpful An empty tease leads to Her Close-UpsPosted: 4/11/2006A review of The Notorious Bettie Page by Charles1030 While Gretchen Mol delivers a delightfully exuberant lead performance, with a doll, Mary Harrons biopic is one big, empty tease that the film itself seldom goes beyond skin deep. A superficial look at the 50s sex icon, picture feels like it was researched via press clippings rather than attempting a fresh rethinking of its era and provocative subject. Not for nothing is this movie opening on Good Friday. It can be as boring as church. Theres no snake in Betties Eden and no narrative to Harrons movie. Its more of an altar piece Our Lady of the Garter Belt, the Fastidious Bettie Page.
But a lightweight retelling of Pages life, a sketch, really, which doesnt probe very deeply into Pages bizarre mixture of exhibitionism and piety. But some scenes that might have been borderline exploitation, or just cornyturn out to be ineffably beautiful. That thetone is semi-parodic, with lurid black-and-white cinematography and brassy, tongue-in-cheek music. But Harron stops well short of camp. None-the-less, i like the biopic, its great. Was this review helpful? Sign In 17 out of 73 users found this helpful  was khaPosted: 3/18/2006A review of The Notorious Bettie Page by khanz1021 soso so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-3 of 3 Per Page | ||
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