London Film Festival Review: Sarah Gavron's Drama 'Suffragette'

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When Suffragette begins, Maud is not one. She’s a working woman, a wife and a mother, going about her life as best she can, trying to be respectful and do as she’s told. Her work is pretty grim but she’s good at it. Instead of using this movie to tell the story of real people, writer Abi Morgan and director Sarah Gavron have created Maud, an amalgamation of many, many stories of real Suffragettes and everything that they endured. They then surround her with a few real stories but these characters remain in the background until needed. You know from the outset there is real truth to this fiction and, with Carey Mulligan at the lead, and Morgan and Gavron behind the scenes, this movie will not hide from the horrors faced. It’s taken a very long time to make a movie about the Suffragettes but the angle chosen is spot on, and entirely worth the wait. ›››

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