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...they know Bettie Page the person, when all they're getting is what Bettie Page the performer wants them to see. She gave her audience what artists impart: the illusion of knowing someone. Indeed, it may be a tribute to the mystery of Bettie's personality that neither Mary Harron's biopic nor the host of Bettie-maniacs, young and old, could penetrate...
...know Bettie Page the person, when all they're getting is what Bettie Page the performer wants them to see. She has given her audience what artists impart: the illusion of knowing someone. Indeed, it may be a tribute to the mystery of Bettie's personality that neither Mary Harron nor the host of Bettie-maniacs, young and old, can penetrate...
That's pretty much what Mary Harron's cool, sly movie has for a conflict. And since Page, though under subpoena, never gets to tell her side of the story to Kefauver, not a lot comes of it. Mostly the film encourages us to giggle along with Page as she adopts more and more comically outrageous costumes and poses...
...tried to get a friend of mine who’s an established director, Mary Harron, to do it and I would help her,” Green says. “I really hadn’t done anything this ambitious...
...Harron and co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner do understand the book, and they want their film to be understood as a period comedy of manners. Patrick and his nonfriends care only about their abs and their arid social lives. ("I'm not really hungry," one of them says, "but I'd like to have reservations someplace.") Some of the wit may sound insidey--Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for Norman Bates, is ID'd as the "maitre d' at Canal Bar"--but it makes a point. To Patrick, serial killers and cafe staffers are interchangeable celebrities...