– Suffragette –
Only in cinemas from 26 December 2015
SUFFRAGETTE is a thrilling drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, 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. Maud (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.
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In Suffragette, Meryl Streep plays the formidable Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement. In 2011, she played another formidable British woman for director Phyillda Lloyd in The Iron Lady. Who was the real-life character she played?
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