Beauty Becomes the Beast
1979•41m•7.5•Released
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.
Director
Vivienne Dick
Languages
English
Cast
Adele Bertei
Lydia Lunch
Klaus Nomi
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