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Misbehaviour

Released 13 March 2020

They're turning oppression into spectacle. Let's make a spectacle of our own!

In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly-formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition.

Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada - the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.

Misbehaviour - trailer

Starring:

Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Suki Waterhouse, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Phyllis Logan

Director:

Philippa Lowthorpe

Producer:

Suzanne Mackie, Sarah-Jane Wheale

Screenplay:

Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe

Distributor:

Pathé

Running time:

1h 46min

Released:

13 March 2020

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