The London Film Festival may not be until October, but there’s been a very early announcement of the opening film, as Suffragette will kick off the event with its European Premiere on October 7th. Alongside that news came the trailer for film.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. It is directed by LFF alumna Sarah Gavron, who returns to the Festival for a third time, reteaming with her Brick Lane screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady). SUFFRAGETTE is produced by Faye Ward and Alison Owen (Saving Mr. Banks, LFF Closing Night film, 2013).
‘SUFFRAGETTE is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. The character of Maud, played by Carey Mulligan, is one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.’
Take a look trailer below. The movie will reach UK cinemas on October 30th. [Read more…]
With the UK going to the polls for a General Election on May 7th, Pathe Pictures has decided it’s the perfect time to release a teaser for the movie Suffragette. It’s been put out in support of the #votingmatters campaign, which highlights things such as the fact that more than 9 million women failed to vote in the 2010 election, and so there is a major campaign to get women to register to vote before the deadline on 20 April.
While most people know the Suffragettes fought the right to allow women to vote, not many people know that much about how they went about that (beyond someone jumping in front of the King’s horse). The film Suffragette hopes to help fill in the gaps in our knowledge.