Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe | Written by Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe | 106 min | Crave Plus
With one of the year’s sharpest scripts, this largely unheralded British picture hits all its targets while delivering a cheer-worthy entertainment. It tells the story of the 1970 Miss World contest in London, and how activists from a local wing of the Women’s Liberation Movement disrupted the televised events.
What really impresses is how the film gives us clear access from multiple perspectives, prioritizing the experience of very different women with a lightness of touch: Keira Knightley’s Sally Alexander, a recently enrolled mature student, going back to school following motherhood and divorce, gets help from her mother (