“Miss Italia Mustn’t Die” is a documentary directed by Pietro Daviddi and David Gallerano.
Netflix launches “Miss Italia Mustn’t Die”, a new documentary that plunges us deep into the controversy: Do beauty pageants promote an erroneous stereotype of women? Do beauty contests “objectify” women? “Miss Italia Mustn’t Die” delves into one of the world’s oldest beauty pageants, with 84 years of history.
The documentary introduces Patrizia Mirigliani, a central figure in the pageant’s organization, who offers an intimate look at the challenges and criticisms the event faces in the modern era. Through her perspective, the documentary examines the evolution of the contest and its place in contemporary Italian society.
Patrizia, daughter of the contest’s founder, immerses us in contradiction and controversy: her family history, relationships with her children, and a overcome illness.
“Miss Italia Mustn’t Die” showcases a pageant that seems from another era, with judges who appear to be from a different time: old visions and classic stereotypes confronted with feminist perspectives and state policies.
The contest’s great drama occurred when RAI (Italian public television) removed Miss Italy from its broadcasts, plunging the pageant into a major crisis from which it’s trying to recover: Is there space for a beauty pageant on a country’s public television?
The documentary tackles the controversy with impartiality, showing us Patrizia Mirigliani acting as a guide on this journey through a contest that, for many, represents the exaltation of female beauty and, for others, something retrograde and out of time.
The controversy is served.
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