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The Iron Lady (2011)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,05 697 votes

Genre: Drama / Biography

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / France

Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd

Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Olivia Colman

IMDb score: 6,4 (114.151)

Releasedate: 26 December 2011

The Iron Lady plot

"Never Compromise."

The Iron Lady tells the story behind Margaret Thatcher, who managed to overcome the obstacles of gender and class to be heard as a woman in a male-dominated political world. The story is about power and the price that must be paid for it. It also offers a portrait of a special and complex lady.

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IH88

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“If you want to change this party, lead it. If you want to change the country, lead it.”

Decent biopic about Margaret Thatcher. A bit too solid, and the frame story didn't really appeal to me either. A little more focus on Thatcher's political career, and a little less scenes with Thatcher suffering from Alzheimer's, would have helped the film. Streep knows how to play a hallucinating Thatcher well, but there were just too many scenes like that. The scenes in the British House of Commons, Thatcher's speeches and her political demise are highlights of the film.

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mrklm

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Abi Morgan's unremarkable screenplay uses Margaret Thatcher's [Meryl Streep]'s Alzheimer's in her final years as the anchor point for a series of flashbacks that recount the most important events in the life, but especially the career of the first (but not the last) female British Prime Minister. rush past us. Alexandra Roach is convincing as the young 'Maggie' and Jim Broadbent is ideally cast as husband Denis, but it is the virtually unrecognizable Streep (helped enormously by the Oscar®-winning make-up of Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland) who makes this truly memorable. makes. Her role not only requires her to play a woman in the prime of her life and in her fragile later years. She also has yet to convince as one of the most iconic and recognizable women in recent history, who also learns to adapt her voice. It therefore rightly earned Streep her third Oscar®.

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I am certainly not a fan of Meryl Streep. Recently I stopped watching a movie with her half way through. But, I have to admit, in this film she plays insanely. Convincing and not 'typical Meryl' which for me is a compliment. As a biopic I don't think the film is that successful. You learn a lot about the old, demented Thatcher, but her life in politics is fragmented and only superficially discussed. This did not really give me insight into the Thatcher of that time. I would have liked to understand better why she did what she did, what drove her, what her relationships were like. I only experienced Thatcher in my early childhood, but the film did trigger me to delve further into it. From this I learned that a rather one-sided image of the Iron Lady has been presented and that her motives were not always as honorable as suggested. Too bad there's so little room for the other side. For the life of such an iconic woman, it would have been better to accept a somewhat longer playing time. In fact, it is mainly a film about a very successful woman who gets dementia at an older age and how she copes with it. That part is gripping is gripping and comes in well. That it's Thatcher might be more of a bonus. Perhaps unsatisfactory as a biopic, but a success as a film. 3.5 star.

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