Who’s in it: Gretchen Mol (left), Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn
What it’s about: Pinup queen Bettie Page (Mol) shook up the 1950s with her posed shots by fetish photographers, but she saw nothing wrong with it.
Worth watching? (star)(star) 1/2
“Mol is a revelation as Page, and not just because she keeps taking her clothes off. She’s so comfortable in Page’s skin–every square inch of it–that, as one character in the film notes, ‘When she’s nude, she doesn’t seem naked.'”
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