While most eyes are turned to the summer slate, we expect our first looks at some of the fall’s most promising films to roll out over the summer. One such teaser has now landed today with the debut footage from Suffragette, the drama directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane). Although it’s painfully short, the 30-second teaser sells a potentially compelling drama, which Focus Features will release in October.
Led by Carey Mulligan playing a foot soldier of the early feminist movement who quickly turns to violence to solve the issue, the cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Brendan Gleeson, and Ben Whishaw. Scripted by Abi Morgan (reteaming with Meryl Streep after The Iron Lady and Mulligan after Shame), check it out below.
SUFFRAGETTE is a thrilling drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. MAUD (Carey Mulligan) was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.
Suffragettte opens on October 23rd.