Not interested in the warts and all side of history

 

Misbehaviour (2020)

Directed by Philippa Lowthrope this film inspired by real events stars Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jessie Buckley. The 1970 Miss World competition is the focus of protests by the women's liberation movement.

This is the latest in a series of feel good, self congratulatory films about progressive movements that does not worry about letting facts get in the way of the story they want to tell. No doubt a story worth telling at times the script is a little too obviously constructed. Despite attempts to deal with the privilege of certain characters the film does smack of the bad side of middle class white feminism at times.

2/5