MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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World shattering
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the women whose actions triggered the demise of the global beauty-contest industry
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Misbehaviour (12A)
Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe
THE 1970 Miss World protest by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement, which put them on the global map overnight, is immortalised and celebrated in this wonderfully entertaining yet poignant comedy drama.
The protesters, who infiltrated the televised beauty pageant as audience members, disrupted the proceedings live on air. They hurled flour bombs and fired a water pistol at the show’s host, the womanising “comedy legend” Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear), following his appalling sexist jokes and in protest at the demeaning way the competition treated and portrayed women.
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