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Suffragette is a 2015 British historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.[4]

Suffragette
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Directed by	Sarah Gavron
Written by	Abi Morgan
Produced by	Alison Owen Faye Ward
Starring	Carey Mulligan Helena Bonham Carter Brendan Gleeson Anne-Marie Duff Ben Whishaw Meryl Streep
Cinematography	Eduard Grau
Edited by	Barney Pilling
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Production companies	Film4 BFI Ingenious Media Canal+ Ciné+ Ruby Films Pathé
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	4 September 2015 (2015-09-04) (Telluride) 12 October 2015 (2015-10-12)
Running time	106 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$14 million[2]
Box office	$34 million[3]

Filming began on 24 February 2014. It is the first feature film to be shot in the Houses of Parliament. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2015 by the French film company Pathé through its British distributor 20th Century Fox. Originally scheduled to be released by Relativity Media, the film was ultimately released in a limited release in North America on 23 October 2015 by Focus Features.

Plot

In 1912, Maud Watts is a 24-year-old laundry worker. While delivering a package, she is caught up in a suffragette protest which includes her workmate, Violet Miller.

Alice Haughton, the wife of an MP, encourages women from the laundry to testify to a Parliamentary committee. Violet offers but is beaten by her abusive husband and Maud testifies. The women later learn, at a public announcement, that the vote is not to be extended. Maud is caught up in the protest, arrested, and jailed for a week. While in jail, she meets Emily Davison, a confidante of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Maud faces stigma from neighbours and workmates. She tells her husband Sonny that she will stay away from the suffragettes but attends a secret rally to hear Pankhurst speak. She has a brief exchange with Pankhurst. Again detained, she is taken home by police. This time, her husband throws her out. Maud struggles to see her son, continuing to work until her picture is published as a known suffragette. Maud is then sacked and, past breaking point, she burns the hand of her male supervisor, who has been sexually abusing girls in the laundry for years, including Maud when she was younger, and Maggie, Violet's daughter. The police are called, and Inspector Steed allows Maud to leave, offering her an opportunity to act as an informer. Maud refuses.

Sonny continues to prevent Maud from seeing their son, George. This prompts Maud into more radicalism in favour of women's rights. She learns that Sonny has offered George for adoption. Maud becomes more radical and is involved in bombing pillar boxes and cutting telegraph wires. She and her comrades are imprisoned after they blow up an empty Parliamentary residence. In prison, Maud goes on hunger strike and is subjected to brutal force-feeding.

The suffragettes feel that they must do still more to gain attention. They decide to attend the Derby when King George V will be in attendance, planning to step in front of the cameras and unfurl their banners. Before they go, Emily Davison hands Maud a copy of Dreams (1890), a book by Olive Schreiner that has been passed from one suffragette to another. On the day of the Derby, only Maud and Emily attend. They are barred from the area near the King, but Emily decides that they must carry on anyway. While the race is underway, Emily runs onto the track, stepping in front of Anmer, the King's horse, and Maud witnesses her being trampled to death. After returning to London, Maud retrieves Violet's daughter, Maggie, from the laundry, and takes her to the home of Alice Haughton, who agrees that Maggie can work there instead. Maud later joins in Emily's funeral procession. The film ends by stating that Emily's funeral was reported around the world; and that certain women over 30 in the UK were given the right to vote in 1918, rights over their own children in 1925, and the same voting rights as men in 1928. Scrolling text lists countries that preceded Britain in giving women the vote and others that did so later.

Cast

• Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts[5]
• Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn. Although the character of Ellyn is fictitious, she was loosely based on Edith Garrud and Edith New.[6][7][8]
• Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst[4]
• Natalie Press as Emily Davison
• Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller[9]
• Romola Garai as Alice Haughton[9]
• Ben Whishaw as Sonny Watts[9]
• Brendan Gleeson as Arthur Steed[9]
• Samuel West as Benedict Haughton[9]
• Adrian Schiller as David Lloyd George
• Morgan Watkins as Malcolm Walsop
• Lorraine Stanley as Mrs Coleman
• Amanda Lawrence as Miss Withers
• Adam Nagaitis as Mr Cummins
• Emma Morgano as Miss Plook

Only Pankhurst, Davison, Lloyd George and King George V are not fictitious.

Production

Development

In April 2011, it was announced that Film4 Productions, Focus Features and Ruby Films were developing a history drama film about the British women's suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.[10] Abi Morgan was set to write the script while Sarah Gavron was attached to direct the film.[10] On 24 October 2013, it was revealed that Pathé had replaced Focus, while the BFI Film Fund was to fund the film and that Ryan Kavanaugh was attached to produce it.[5]

In October 2014, Relativity Media acquired only the North American rights and Pathé acquired the international rights to distribute Suffragette. However, on 17 March 2015, Focus Features took over the North American distribution rights, after the success of The Theory of Everything. The main reason was that Relativity had filed for bankruptcy at the time, so Focus took over the distribution rights in the United States and Ryan dropped out of producing the film due to the bankruptcy of Relativity.[11]

Casting

Carey Mulligan was cast to play the lead role on 24 February 2013;[5] Helena Bonham Carter joined on 20 December 2013;[6] Meryl Streep was cast as British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst on 19 February 2014;[4] Ben Whishaw and Brendan Gleeson joined the cast on 20 February 2014.[9]

Filming

Principal photography began on 24 February 2014 in London.[9] The production also visited The Historic Dockyard Chatham where they filmed the factory and prison scenes.[12]

Release

The film was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 12 October 2015 by Pathé, distributed by 20th Century Fox.[13]

Originally, Relativity Media acquired United States distribution rights in October 2014; but eventually left the project following its financial struggles and bankruptcy at the time. In the aftermath of the success of The Theory of Everything, Focus Features later acquired distribution rights to the film in North America instead as well as several other territories, following which Ryan Kavanaugh dropped out of producing the film. Focus Features then set the film for a limited release in the United States on 23 October 2015.[14]

In June 2015, it was announced that Suffragette would receive its European premiere on 7 October 2015 as the opening film of the BFI London Film Festival. The LFF director, Clare Stewart, said Gavron's feature was an "urgent and compelling film, made by British women, about British women who changed the course of history".[15] The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 4 September 2015.

To promote the film before its October 2015 release, Suffragette teamed with the magazine Time Out London to develop a marketing campaign featuring the film's stars. After its publication in September 2015, the resulting material generated controversy among media outlets. Mulligan, Streep, Garai and Duff appeared in a promotional photograph wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a Pankhurst quotation used in the film: "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave". This quickly led to a media furore, with critics describing the magazine's choice of slogan "unfortunate",[16] "tone-deaf",[17] and "racist".[18] Scholar Ana Stevenson noted that while from a historical perspective the usage of the Pankhurst quotation in the film was accurate, "Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Romola Garai and Anne-Marie Duff are rich, privileged, white women who are celebrity movie stars – certainly not slaves"; Stevenson further argued that there is "a perversity in claiming otherwise when racial discrimination and domestic violence remain very present concerns".[19]

The feminist group Sisters Uncut demonstrated at the London premiere against government cuts to domestic violence services. Bonham Carter described the protest as "perfect. If you feel strongly enough about something and there's an injustice there you can speak out and try to get something changed". Carey Mulligan said that the protest was "awesome" and that she was sad she had missed it.[20]

Reception

Box office

As of 7 March 2016^[update], Suffragette had grossed $30 million against a budget of $14 million.[3]

Critical reception

Suffragette has received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 72%, based on 217 reviews, with an average rating of 6.70/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Suffragette dramatizes an important – and still painfully relevant – fact-based story with more than enough craft and sincerity to overcome its flaws."[21] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 66 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[22]

Awards

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2018)

• British Independent Film Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Brendan Gleeson[23]
• Hamptons International Film Festival, Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award, Sarah Gavron
• Hollywood Film Awards, Actress of the Year, Carey Mulligan
• Mill Valley Film Festival, Audience Award, Mind the Gap, Sarah Gavron

See also

• Suffragette bombing and arson campaign
• List of suffragette bombings
• Shoulder to Shoulder
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004 film)
• Suffs (2022 musical)
• Feminism in the United Kingdom

References

Further reading

• Gavron, Sarah (2015). "The making of the feature film Suffragette". Women's History Review. Taylor and Francis. 24 (6): 985–995. doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1074007. S2CID 146584171.
• Seabourne, Gwen (April 2016). "Deeds, Words and Drama: A Review of the Film Suffragette (2015)". Feminist Legal Studies. Springer. 24 (1): 115–119. doi:10.1007/s10691-015-9307-3.
• A De Pascalis, Ilaria (May 2017). "Film review: Suffragette". European Journal of Women's Studies. Sage. 24 (2): 189–192. doi:10.1177/1350506817691866. S2CID 220200727.

External links

• Suffragette at IMDb
• Suffragette at Focus Features
• Suffragette Press Kit. Transmission Films, (57 pp), 2015.
• Suffragette at Box Office Mojo
• Suffragette at Rotten Tomatoes
• Suffragette at Metacritic

На других языках

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[de] Suffragette – Taten statt Worte

Suffragette – Taten statt Worte (Originaltitel: Suffragette) ist ein britisches Drama der Regisseurin Sarah Gavron aus dem Jahr 2015. Der Film thematisiert die Anfänge der Frauenbewegung in Großbritannien.[3] Er lief am 4. Februar 2016 in den deutschen Kinos an.[4][5][6] Seit 16. Juni 2016 ist der Film als DVD, Blu-ray und VoD in Deutschland erhältlich.[7]

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- [en] Suffragette (film)

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[es] Las sufragistas

Las sufragistas es una película británica estrenada en 2015 dirigida por Sarah Gavron y con guion de Abi Morgan. La película se centra en las primeras participantes en el movimiento británico en favor del sufragio femenino de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX.[1] Está protagonizada por Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw y Meryl Streep.[2]

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[ru] Суфражистка (фильм)

Суфражистка (англ. Suffragette) — британский фильм 2015 года режиссёра Сары Гаврон. Фильм вышел в ограниченный прокат в США 23 октября 2015 года[8]. В Великобритании фильм вышел в прокат 30 октября[9].

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