
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY is the provocative, rousing and
often humorous account of the birth of the women’s liberation movement
in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new
millennium, direct from the women who lived it. Combining
never-before-seen archival footage; a classic soundtrack of the era; and
first-person stories of the protests, poetry slams and community
meetings that engineered meaningful social change, the film embraces the
grassroots movement that proclaimed “the personal is political” and the
women who dared to get furious about it. The film does not shy away
from addressing controversy within the movement’s many strands of
feminism: the issues of women of color, struggles with class, and the
fight for lesbian visibility that was the forerunner of today’s LGBT
movement. An essential chronicle of the movement that elevated women out
of their second-class status, SHE’S BEAUTIFUL… champions the brilliant
women at the forefront of the seismic changes of the time as well as
those who continue to bang the drum of equality today.
Director(s)
Mary DoreCast
Chude Pamela AllenJudith Arcana
Nona Willis Aronowitz
"One of the year's best films. An urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters of second-wave feminism." ALAN SCHERSTUHL, VILLAGE VOICE
"This film should be seen. Take your daughters. And your sons." TY BURR, BOSTON GLOBE
"Visionary and heroic." RICHARD BRODY, THE NEW YORKER