The Mystery of Cheesecake
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A reviewer tries to sum up Gretchen Mol’s performance as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page.
No moral, little plot, a lead character deliberately left unknowable. What you have instead is Gretchen Mol, whose job it is to embody a sex symbol whose appeal is difficult to pin down, much less duplicate. To be at once approachable and a vixen is a paradox, and Mol incarnates it beautifully in this low-key riddle of a film.