The Lady (2011)
Genre: Drama / Biography
Duration: 132 minuten
Country:
France / United Kingdom / Thailand
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis and Jonathan Woodhouse
IMDb score:
7,0 (11.612)
Releasedate: 30 November 2011
The Lady plot
"From House Arrest to Parliament"
Film about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Myanmar politician, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. The film chronicles the events that take place between 1988 and 1999. In 1988 Suu Kyi leaves Oxford to visit her sick mother in Burma, eventually staying there. When her husband, Dr. Michael Aris, whom she hadn't seen since 1995, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in England in March 1999, Suu Kyi was faced with the almost impossible choice of staying in Burma or visiting him on his last sickbed, risking her return if she returned. would no longer be allowed into the country.
Actors and actresses
Aung San Suu Kyi
Michael Aris
Kim Aris
Alexander Aris
Lucinda Philips
Karma Phuntsho
General Ne Win
Than Shwe
Marie-Laure Aris
Aung San - the Father
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I have a great interest in history or in contemporary international politics. The more I "discover" new things and want to read about them, the more I realize that there are dozens of subjects of which I know almost nothing, except for a mention or a notion. It is therefore impossible to be informed about everything. But the latter is also an art in itself.
So, apart from the Nobel Peace Prize and the painful events with the Rohingya, where she and her country were in the news in an emphatically negative way, I didn't know much about Aung San Suu Kyi. A film is not always the right medium to get a nuanced picture of something or someone. But it can be a reason to look up more about her. The film did trigger that in me, and that's a lot.
The film gives a purely positive view of the person Aung San Suu Kyi. What a role Michelle Yeoh by the way and you see that Besson made this film with great care down to the smallest details. This film may be a bit too positively colored, but it also makes clear that a conflict that has existed for so long and has been ignored by the West for so long cannot simply be approached and condemned/judged through Western glasses.
Content-wise it is difficult to judge. Technically and visually a strong film. A great first 15 minutes by the way that literally suck you into the film.
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james_cameron
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- 6982 messages
- 9775 votes
Well-intentioned but somewhat dull film about the life of Myanmarese politician Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Michelle Yeoh does a fine job in the leading role, but the rest of the cast is rather dull and pale in comparison. It also does not really want to become moving and/or exciting under the flat direction of Luc Besson.
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mrklm
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- 11374 messages
- 9897 votes
The life story of Burmese activist and politician Aung San Suu Kyi is as eventful as that of Mahatma Gandhi. But whoever sick mind thought that the King of Popcorn Movies was the right person to film that story certainly does not deserve a Nobel Prize. Yeoh is a cracker in the lead role and Thewliss is ideal as her husband Michael Aris, but what remains of Rebecca Frayn's screenplay does not get any further than a hastily thrown together Wikipedia page. Some key scenes are rushed through with two or three lines of dialogue in a minute! Hopefully this story will be filmed again with a competent director at the helm.
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