Not a Pretty Picture (1976)
- Directed by
- Martha Coolidge
- Genre
- drama film, docudrama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A filmmaker recreates her own experience of being raped as a teenager and examines the aftermath of the assault.
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What happens
Not a Pretty Picture is a 1976 American docudrama film. The film was written, produced and directed by Martha Coolidge, marking her narrative feature film directorial debut, after years of working as a documentary filmmaker in the early to mid-1970s. The film recreates Coolidge's experience of being raped by an acquaintance when she was sixteen years old in 1962, then focuses on the aftermath. The film first premiered in March 31, 1976 in New York City. It went on to screen at the 1976 Toronto International Film Festival, 1978 Sundance Film Festival (then known as Utah/US Film Festival) and in arthouse theaters. In 2022, the film was restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation and was given a limited theatrical release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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