Fractured Feminism: New Film Explores Different Definitions of Movement

Fractured Feminism: New Film Explores Different Definitions of Movement


Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services

By Next America Staff

Updated: June 11, 2012 | 3:51 p.m.
June 11, 2012 | 12:32 p.m.



It’s a familiar story line: Uptight successful woman returns to her mother’s house, young children on the cusp of adulthood in tow, after a personal tragedy (in this case a divorce) upends her world.

What follows for the characters in Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding is a familiar negotiation between familial love and conflicting worldviews and values systems between the generations.

Movies about intergenerational strife abound, Chloe Angyal, wrote last week in The Atlantic. What makes Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding unique, she says, is its exploration of the definition of feminism and what that has come to encompass in the 40-plus years since feminist protesters tossed bras, cosmetics, and high-heeled shoes into a trash can outside the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.

Although the word feminism does not appear in the film, the three generations of women represent the fragmented but inclusive reality of American feminism, Angyal wrote.


more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/culture/fractured-feminism-new-film-explores-different-definitions-of-movement-20120611

not such a great review
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2012/0608/Peace-Love-Misunderstanding-movie-review-trailer