Synopsis
Based on true events about 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.
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Cast
- Carey MulliganMaud Watts
- Helena Bonham CarterEdith Ellyn
- Brendan GleesonArthur Steed
- Anne-Marie DuffViolet Cambridge
- Meryl StreepEmmeline Pankhurst
- Ben WhishawSonny Watts
- Romola GaraiAlice Haughton
- Samuel WestBenedict Haughton
- Geoff BellNorman Taylor
- Natalie PressEmily Davison
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out London
Writer Abi Morgan ('Shame', 'The Iron Lady') and director Sarah Gavron's ('Brick Lane') tough, raw, bleak-looking film makes the suffragettes' dilemma feel immediate and real. - 80
The Telegraph
It’s written, shot and acted with a hot-blooded urgency that reminds you the struggle it depicts is an ongoing one – and which shakes up this most well-behaved of genres with a surge of civil disobedience. - 75
IndieWire
Director Sarah Gavron's celebratory chronicle would inspire strong reactions even if it wasn't much of a movie, but the filmmaker compliments her powerful tale with the immediacy of her filmmaking and performances on the same level. It's an unabashed message-driven story that imbues the past with modern power. - 75
Observer
The physical abuse and emotional anguish sometimes borders on overkill, but the final outcome is overwhelming. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The surprise of Suffragette is how much anger and urgency it contains, and how much new material it unearths. - 70
Screen Daily
Suffragette’s strength lies in the fact that, even though some of the characters and events depicted seem archetypal, and they’re certainly composites, they turn out to be more than that. - 60
The Guardian
Director Sarah Gavron does well to galvanize her story with a degree of urgency: the result of swift, assured camerawork and a brilliantly understated performance by Carey Mulligan. - 60
Variety
Carey Mulligan gives an affecting, skillfully modulated performance that lends a certain coherence to this assemblage of real-life incidents, composite characters, noble sentiments, stirring speeches and impeccable production values — all marshaled in service of a picture whose politics prove rather more commendable than its artistry.
