Beauty: In the Eyes of the Beheld (2008)

Directed by

Liza Figueroa Kravinsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Eight American women who are considered physically beautiful talk about their lives. They are from different backgrounds and include a physician, an exotic dancer, and a former beauty queen. The film shows how beauty affects their childhoods, careers, and relationships, including both the benefits and the hidden difficulties.

introspectiveeye-openingcandidthoughtfulvulnerableunsettlingsoberingreflective

What happens

Beauty: In the Eyes of the Beheld is a 2008 American documentary film that explores what it is like to be a beautiful woman through interviews of eight American women considered physically beautiful. The women interviewed include a physician, an exotic dancer, a musician who worked with recording artist Prince, former beauty queens, a student in a wheelchair, an assistant paralegal, and an assistant television producer. Eye opening stories of insecurity, vulnerability and tragedy surface along with the more predictable blessings beauty brings. The preview asks " Is beauty all it is cracked to be?" Surprising stories surface as they speak about their childhoods, careers, relationships, and life satisfaction. Beauty: In the Eyes of the Beheld is included in the National Eating Disorders Association's list of body image educational tools. Director and producer Liza Figueroa Kravinsky explores these perceptions, those of the women of themselves, and how they feel they are perceived by the outside world, by the impossible "ideal" created and demanded by the media, ideals that are modified from season to season. A study of skin-deep attractiveness, the film offers empowering insights into inner beauty as well. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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