Suffragette Trailer: The British Women’s Selma ~ Cinenus

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Suffragette Trailer: The British Women’s Selma

Call her “the iron lady” — Carey Mulligan this time, not her co-star Meryl Streep — for that moment when her character burns the advancing hand of her laundry boss. And then she takes that name and fights for justice as a vigilante going around and smashing a hot iron against the faces of all men who don’t treat women with respect. Okay, no, this isn’t that kind of movie. That’d be Tarantino’s Suffragette.

Here’s the first full trailer for a highly anticipated period drama out this fall that could be this year’s Selma except that it probably has a better chance (not necessarily deservedly so) at the Oscars. Well, maybe not for its female director, sadly. But for its on screen talent, at least, maybe including Helena Bonham Carter, who we didn’t get to see in the first teaser and even now we don’t see a whole lot of.

Unlike Selma, though, Suffragette focuses on a lower-level voting rights activist as opposed to the famous leader (Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst), and the activism here is violent as opposed to MLK’s pacifist strategy. And it’s got Brendan Gleeson as the angry white man in place of Tom Wilkinson. But once again we get a movie that will have us wondering just how much further we’ve come.

Suffragette was written by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) and is directed by BAFTA nominee Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane, which was also written by Morgan). Here’s the official synopsis:

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. 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.

Elect to see it in theaters when it opens October 23rd.

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