Movie

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Released: January 2, 1979 (1979)

Runtime: 41 minutes

Genres: 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.