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"Brave Miss World" Movie Review: 3 1/2 Stars
by Sheri Linden
Linor Abargil's emotional response to being crowned
An 18-year-old with remarkable inner strength and a supportive family, Abargil refused to submit to shaming silence and fought to bring her attacker to justice.
"Brave Miss World," Cecilia Peck's intimate documentary portrait, illuminates the ways the attack changed the course of her subject's life -- and shows that, in this supposedly enlightened age, rape victims who speak out are still often stigmatized rather than championed, even on U.S. college campuses.
The film begins as Abargil launches a website where victims can share their stories and follows her as she travels the globe to visit with survivors of rape, Joan Collins and Fran Drescher among them.
Lesser-known women offer direct-to-camera testimony in some of the documentary's strongest sequences. Their horrendous stories take a toll on Abargil, who's compelling in her vulnerability and compassion as well as her toughness and anger.
Given considerable access over four years, Peck celebrates Abargil as an impassioned and inspiring advocate while making clear the emotional complexities of her single-mindedness. With typical decisiveness, the beauty queen leaps into action to oppose parole for the serial rapist who attacked her.
The conversation in "Brave Miss World" never touches on rehabilitation for the perpetrator; Abargil's focus is those who fall prey, and her empowering example is the refusal to internalize such victimhood.
No MPAA rating
Running time: 1:31.
"Brave Miss World" Movie Trailer
"Brave Miss World" explores the trauma of sexual assault through one young woman’s journey from teenage rape victim to Miss World to empowered lawyer and activist.
'Brave Miss World' Movie Review & Movie Trailer