SARAH GAVRON

SUFFRAGETTE (2015)

Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson and Romola Garai. Directed by Sarah Gavron.

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.

REVIEWS Suffragette - Standing on the shoulders of heroes