Suffragette (2015)

Release date: 2015-10-12
Country: UK|France
Language: English
Director: Sarah Gavron
Production Co: Ruby Films, Pathe UK, Film4
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: 6.9/10
Length: 1h 46min

Storyline

A 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. Radicalized 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 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.

Plot Keywords

terrorism, protest, women's rights, civil rights, working class, police brutality, anarchy, f rated, sexism, sexual harassment, activism, vandalism, hunger strike, spying, adoption, pride, government, mother son relationship, human rights, shame

Short Review

It's a graceful, serious-minded period piece that never quite comes to life, although it tells its story clearly and is at pains to place a sympathetic figure at its centre.