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- 2020
- Not Rated
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 46 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 46 m
Summary 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 ...
Directed By: Philippa Lowthorpe
Written By: Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 46 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 46 m
Misbehaviour
62
4.0
Where to Watch
Summary 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 ...
Directed By: Philippa Lowthorpe
Written By: Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
62
53% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
62
53% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Well written, -acted, -cast and -produced, this wholly entertaining yet stingingly relevant story of the 1970 Miss World finals should have been a smash hit when it opened in UK theatres on March 13, but events overtook its release.
If there is a tonal uncertainty in this comedy, then that’s because there was a tonal uncertainty in the real-life events, and the movie nicely conveys how they were at one and the same time deadly serious and Pythonically silly.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 User Ratings
4.0
24% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
41% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
35% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 User Ratings
4.0
24% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
41% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
35% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
I thought this was a reasonably well made film based on a true story. I'm a little uncomfortable that its categorised as a comedy - the issue of womens rights and the objectification of young women is hardly a laughing matter and if anything such issues have only got worse in the following decades. I suppose there are some moments where the activists are shown in high spirits, which may cheer you but I wouldn't say any of it is exactly laugh out loud material. I'd heard about the true story before (having seen a documentary about it on the BBC a few years back), so I knew roughly what to expect. I thought both Keira Knightley and Jessie Buckley gave good performances, probably moreso Jessie Buckley, who is someone I really rate for her performances. If your interested in seeing the story played out in all its 1970 era bright colours and naffness, you'll find that here certainly - its a good film to potentially start discussion about feminism maybe and generally I thought it's a good film. Maybe not quite good but decent enough to be worth a watch, yes. Oh and I particularly liked that at the end, we're given details about what happened to the characters via text and shown images of the real people who were involved in real life as well - that always helps with such true life stories.
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The jocular, amiable tone helps deliver the more serious social history lesson throughout, even if sometimes it feels like it’s shouting just a little too loudly to wake up the dimmer students at the back of the lecture hall.
An attempt to tell this complicated intersectional story, and it does so with a comedic light-hearted style, sometimes appropriate, but sometimes inadequate to the possibilities inherent in the real-life event.
A memorable showdown from yesteryear is recalled in an enjoyable yet frustrating film that stubbornly refuses to pick a side.
Like most commercial movies about feminist history, though, it also has a toothless vision of protest and empowerment that’s doomed to fail its subject because its makers don’t (can’t) risk making the audience uncomfortable.
The film is called Misbehaviour, but a timid script belies mischief of any sort.
(Mauro Lanari)
Losing herself in forced, rhetorical and superficial digressions, the director makes the film outdated, too similar to the thousand others about the #meetoo, slow, boring, insincere, negligible. The few images during post-film credits with the real protagonists are incomparably more exciting.
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It kept disappearing from the beginning of the story. I could easily predicted how the story was going to end. The writer of this movies probably was writing the story while patting himself / herself on the back thinking that he/she is going win some kind of award this year. Sorry, i didn’t bother to check if the writer was a male or female. It was a waste of my time and the people i was watching it with.
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Production Company
Pathé,
BBC Film,
British Film Institute (BFI),
Ingenious Media,
Left Bank Pictures,
Rococo Films
Release Date Sep 25, 2020
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Miss World 1970: The launch of a revolution.
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Nomination
