She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (USA)

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (USA)
(92 min; 2014; English)
Director: Mary Dore

The film resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.  She’s Beautiful takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).  Artfully combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality, and in the process created a world-wide revolution. 
Without romanticizing the early movement, dramatizing it in its exhilarating, quarrelsome, sometimes heart-wrenching glory.  That story still resonates today for women who are facing new challenges…