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Well-made biopic, but a little thin, 17 January 2006
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pb104-1 from United States
Bettie Page was a icon of the repressed 1950s, when she represented the
sexual freedom that was still a decade away, but high in the hopes and
dreams of many teenagers and young adults. Gretchen Mol does a superb
job of portraying the scandalous Bettie, who was a small town girl with
acting ambitions and a great body. Her acting career went nowhere, but
her body brought her to the peak of fame in an admittedly fringe field.
Photogrsphed in black and white with color interludes when she gets out
of the world of exploitation in New York, this made-for-TV (HBO) film
has good production values and a very believable supporting cast. The
problem is, it's emotionally rather flat. It's difficult to form an
attachment to the character, since Bettie is portrayed as someone quite
shallow and naive given the business she was in. The self-serving
government investigations are given a lot of screen time, which slows
down the film towards the end. But it's definitely worth watching for
the history of the time, and to see the heavy-handed government
repression that was a characteristic of the fifties. 7/10
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