Miss Africa South – Jeremy C. Processing https://jeremycprocessing.com experience it, process it Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:34:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://jeremycprocessing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-2019-07-24-pic-by-Lowell-cropped-32x32.jpg Miss Africa South – Jeremy C. Processing https://jeremycprocessing.com 32 32 Misbehaviour https://jeremycprocessing.com/misbehaviour/ https://jeremycprocessing.com/misbehaviour/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:30:00 +0000 http://jeremycprocessing.com/?p=1573 Director – Philippa Lowthorpe – 2020 – UK – Cert. 12a – 106m

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Women’s Liberation activists disrupt the 1970 Miss World contest in London, in a real-life story starring Keira Knightley – on DVD from Monday, September 7th. Also on Amazon and iTunes.

One of the great achievements of the British historical drama Misbehaviour is that it recreates a single event on which two separate stories hang. The 1970 Miss World competition coincided with the rise of not only the nascent women’s liberation movement but also increasing international unease with South Africa’s Apartheid regime.

The pitfall awaiting anyone writing a script about all this (or directing one) is that it means constantly walking a tightrope, getting the balance right so that justice is done to both intertwining narratives. It is to Misbehaviour’s great credit that it manages to pull off this difficult feat.

The two narratives are very much an insider’s and an outsider’s view of the contest… Read the rest

Originally published in DMovies.org. Misbehaviour is available on DVD from Monday, September 7th. Also on Amazon and iTunes.

Trailer:

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*****

Women’s Liberation activists disrupt the 1970 Miss World contest in London, in a real-life story starring Keira Knightley – on DVD from Monday, September 7th. Also on Amazon and iTunes.

One of the great achievements of the British historical drama Misbehaviour is that it recreates a single event on which two separate stories hang. The 1970 Miss World competition coincided with the rise of not only the nascent women’s liberation movement but also increasing international unease with South Africa’s Apartheid regime.

The pitfall awaiting anyone writing a script about all this (or directing one) is that it means constantly walking a tightrope, getting the balance right so that justice is done to both intertwining narratives. It is to Misbehaviour’s great credit that it manages to pull off this difficult feat.

The two narratives are very much an insider’s and an outsider’s view of the contest… Read the rest

Originally published in DMovies.org. Misbehaviour is available on DVD from Monday, September 7th. Also on Amazon and iTunes.

Trailer:

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