Beauty Becomes the Beast

Name: Beauty Becomes the Beast
Director: Vivienne Dick
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-01-02
Duration: 41 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Adele Bertei, Lydia Lunch, Klaus Nomi

197941m

★ 7.5

Drama

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.

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Cast

Adele Bertei

Lydia Lunch

Klaus Nomi

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