Sunday 21 August 2016

Women deserve better

Suffragette (2015)

Directed by Sara Gavron this film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Brendan Gleeson. In 1921 a working class English woman is radicalised and joint a terrorist organisation seeking votes for women.

Taking an important part of British history this film mixes fact and fiction which I found disappointing given the many real stories to be told of suffragettes. The story ends up being a more broad strokes celebration of the movement than an in depth look at the cause and arguments of the time. There is a good cast but really the subject matter deserves much better treatment in my opinion.


2/5

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