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Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)

Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)

Documentary
Release Date: 2013, November 22
Directors: Mark Mori
Countries: United States of America
Production: Single Spark Pictures
Cast: Christina Aguilera, Rebecca Romijn, Tricia Helfer, Lady Gaga, Naomi Campbell, Shalom Harlow, Hugh Hefner, Dita Von Teese, Bunny Yeager, Julie Newmar, Laetitia Casta, Perez Hilton

Overview:

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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”

Keywords:

biography photography 1950s women's liberation pin-up art cult figure woman portrait women's sexual identity icon historical documentary sexual revolution sexual liberation medias sexual attitudes sexual code last interview