MISBEHAVIOUR
synopsis
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.
| international title: | Misbehaviour |
| original title: | Misbehaviour |
| country: | United Kingdom, France |
| sales agent: | Pathé International |
| year: | 2020 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Philippa Lowthorpe |
| film run: | 106' |
| release date: | UK 13/03/2020, EE 19/06/2020, LT 17/07/2020, NL 27/08/2020, PT 8/10/2020 |
| screenplay: | Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe |
| cast: | Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keeley Hawes, Suki Waterhouse, Lesley Manville, Charlotte Spencer, Rhys Ifans, Greg Kinnear, Alexa Davies |
| cinematography by: | Zac Nicholson |
| film editing: | Úna Ní Dhonghaíle |
| art director: | Cristina Casali |
| costumes designer: | Charlotte Walter |
| music: | Dickon Hinchliffe |
| producer: | Suzanne Mackie, Sarah Wheale |
| executive producer: | Jenny Borgars, Cameron McCracken, Andrea Scarso |
| production: | Pathé Pictures, Pathé Films, BBC Films, Ingenious Media, Left Bank Pictures |
| backing: | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| distributor: | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures United Kingdom, Acme Film, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment Nederland, PRIS Audiovisuais |
