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Bettie Page Reveals All

Documentary - 2013
Bettie Page Reveals All
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The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
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Details

Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
22 Nov 2013
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Page's natural beauty, charisma and genuine sense of fun - not to mention her 36-24-37 measurements - come clearly through in Mori's tale.
– Kathryn Laskaris,
Toronto Star,
6 Mar 2014
rotten:
An amateurish and oddly paced documentary, "Bettie Page Reveals All" nonetheless turns out to be revealing, if perhaps not in the way its makers intended.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
2 Jan 2014
fresh:
The best thing about this documentary portrait of the beloved 1950s pin-up is its meaty narration, courtesy of Page herself, speaking in the low, slightly gravelly register of an aging Southern belle.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
12 Dec 2013
fresh:
The film offers frank, matter-of-fact commentary that is far more illuminating than the talking-head encomiums served up by the likes of Perez Hilton, Dita Von Teese, and Hugh Hefner.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
6 Dec 2013
fresh:
The film's reason for being, though, is the sound of Page's voice -- a worldly, aged Southern drawl -- as she recounts her life story from childhood through retirement.
– John DeFore,
Hollywood Reporter,
5 Dec 2013
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