An improvised and performative self-portrait, Rosa John’s Rote Linie confronts the viewer with an abstracted and symbolically defaced body. Simultaneously intimate and alienating, the subtly confrontational film makes a complex statement on introspection, interiority and, ultimately, the inscrutability of identity.
Rosa John
Herself
An improvised and performative self-portrait, Rosa John’s Rote Linie confronts the viewer with an abstracted and symbolically defaced body. Simultaneously intimate and alienating, the subtly confrontational film makes a complex statement on introspection, interiority and, ultimately, the inscrutability of identity.
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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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