Suffragette (2015) Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep

[pikeman1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haRj6XWHID8

SUFFRAGETTE is an upcoming drama film directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) and written by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman), centers on early members of the British women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.

With an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishsaw and Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, SUFFRAGETTE is the epic and thrilling first film about the remarkable untold story of the real foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement. 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. Maud (played by Carey Mulligan) was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller; it is also heart-breaking and inspirational. A story told by women, about women, for women.

[MikeScott]

I love Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep. Should be great.

[jPod]

I'm definitely looking forward to this film. Hope the young female generation will show some interest... who am I kidding?

[pikeman1]

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[Holmes]

As the campaign to achieve the right to vote in early-20th-century Britain intensifies and splinters into factions, a few militaristic, a mother and wife (Carey Mulligan) who has toiled for a nominal wage in a laundry since adolescence becomes involved in the women's-right movement. One of Suffragette's finest attributes is the way it depicts history in the suspenseful present tense. It does not encase itself in noble and/or polemical amber, but instead unfolds as a series of gut-wrenching decisions, ferocious protests, last-minute evasions of the police, and clandestine late-night gatherings, shot with an immersive hand-held camera and cut to maximize a sense of crisis and strategy. (It is almost too rapidly paced and forward charging at certain points. The climactic buildup to a violent day at the 1913 Derby could use more clarity.) It is a well-acted film, too. Mulligan, playing fictional heroine Maud, provides determined and expressive eyes through which the audience can regard this 100-year-old sociopolitical environment and its customs and hardships, and Helena Bonham Carter is a captivating and unfaltering presence as a pharmacist entirely ready to embrace militancy. Another standout is the always regal Brendan Gleeson as a Special Branch detective ordered to spy on and capture the suffragettes the way he previously has anarchists and Irish republicans; Gleeson perfectly laces his portrayal of a hard, wily policeman with tantalizing hints of moral doubt and reluctant respect for those he pursues.

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[Foggy]

Man this all female Ocean's Eleven was dark.

Nah, I thought the film was really good and extremely inspiration, most performances are amazing (although if Streep gets an Oscar Nod for this I will lose my shit) and ultimately the message lands with all it's intention, if a bit by the numbers in terms of filmmaking.

[duggie walker]

I'm afraid I found it a letdown. I've done a lot of research on this period for various reasons and there's some fascinating material there but the makers of SUFFRAGETTE approached it in the most pedestrian way possible. I hated the fact that they had to rely on the "molesting boss" trope to motivate the character as the Suffragette movement was about far more than that; and unless I'm mistaken sexual harrassment didn't end after women got the vote.

Sure, it gets the general gist across but this was a time of huge energy and passion. SUFFRAGETTE plays more like a dry W.I lecture and is obviously calculated to not do anything that will put off the blue-rinse brigade, as we once called them. I know - it's a condescending term - but frankly, it's not the older generation who need to hear this story.

[imsounoriginal]

What movie is this the all-female remake of?

[Britnasty]

This expands here this weekend, I'll be seeing it.

Originally Posted by Foggy

(although if Streep gets an Oscar Nod for this I will lose my shit).

They're not campaigning her for this afaik. But we all know that won't stop them from trying to nominate her BUT, the Supporting Actress field is crowded, hopefully she won't take away someone's rightfully deserved nomination for her 3 minutes of screen time in this.

[Britnasty]

4/5.

Loved the film a lot. There were two scenes in particular where I shot up in my seat in awe. Those would be

[Show spoiler]the scene when Maude finds out her husband has given their son up for adoption to a rich family and the other is the scene where Maude is on the hunger strike in prison and they force feed her through the nose.

Both those scenes were powerful and still resonate with me two hours later.

Helena was okay in her role, she was there but never felt like a big presence, rather she seemingly melded with the other Suffragette's. Meryl was great in her one scene monologue and really helped Maude realize she didn't have to be a second rate human being any longer.

Carey was EXCELLENT. I can't say enough how she really brought it as Maude Watts.

[Impossible]

Carey Mulligan in angsty female role shocker......sigh.....

[Coenskubrick]

I was a bit bored really. It wasn't bad I guess but it felt so paint by numbers. Felt like not that much thought went into it and the characters were just generically designed to put in the essential beats of the story.

I found myself wanting to see more of Emily Pankhurst and I thought Meryl Streep was the best part of the movie.