SUFFRAGETTE is expertly directed by Sarah Gavron but Abi Morgan's script at times feels obvious.
Morgan's fictional heroine is Maud, an East-End laundress, wife and mother. While witnessing suffragettes smashing shop windows, Maud recognizes co-worker Violet among them. When the government refuse to change the law, a brutal attack by policemen leads to Maud's arrest and jail sentence which confirms her as an activist; her loss of job and family cannot make her betray the cause.
Carey Mulligan is wonderful as Maud with fine support from Anne-Marie Duff as Violet. Helena Bonham Carter never quite convinces as a politicized pharmacist but there is a marvellous cameo from Meryl Streep as Emmaline Pankhurst.
Shelf or charity shop? A keeper in the dvd limbo of a plastic storage box. No room sadly to mention the fine support of Ben Wishaw and Brendan Gleeson or that Helena Bonham Carter is the great-grand-daughter of Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister who refused the suffragettes the vote!
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