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The British Guide to Showing Off is a British film of genre Documentary with Brian Eno

The British Guide to Showing Off (2011)

The British Guide to Showing Off
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The British Guide to Showing Off is a 2011 documentary film written and directed by Jes Benstock, which follows the build-up and execution of the twelfth Alternative Miss World - artist Andrew Logan's pastiche of the Miss World beauty pageant.

Synopsis

As well as charting the latest incarnation of the Alternative Miss World, the film studies the history of the show itself, which first took place in 1972 and has had a number of high-profile celebrities both entering and judging it.

Actors

Brian Eno
Richard O'Brien
Ruby Wax

(Self)
Divine

(Self (archive footage))
Derek Jarman

(Self (archive footage))
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