Not a Pretty Picture review – Martha Coolidge’s recreation of her rape remains shockingly powerful
Fifty years after its release, Coolidge’s dramatisation of the key moments before and after her rape is still absolutely essentialMartha Coolidge’s overwhelmingly candid and courageous personal docudrama from 1976 is a pioneering study of rape made more powerful by the radical modes of scrutiny that she devised. Coolidge set out to dramatise the key moments leading up to and following the rape she survived a decade or so before, as a teen co-ed, by a fellow student. The rapist is…
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