maria isabel martinez, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/mimartinez/ a journal of film and feminism Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:21:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 “The prettiest prettiest girl”: Complex Beauty in Gia https://cleojournal.com/2015/11/24/the-prettiest-prettiest-girl-complex-beauty-in-gia/ Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:30:13 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1452 Michael Cristofer’s Gia (1998) opens with a tight shot of makeup brushes accentuating an impossibly beautiful face. The features are those of Angelina Jolie in the role of 1980s supermodel Gia Carangi. The face is unnaturally still, perhaps foreshadowing the well documented fate of the model. Gia lived a life of toxic glamour—she is remembered […]

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