Beauty Becomes the Beast
MovieTitle | Beauty Becomes the Beast |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Jan 2, 1979 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Vivienne Dick |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 41 min. |
Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.