Movie Reviews: Suffragette, Sicario, The Walk

Set in pre-WWI London, Suffragette (12A) is a stirring account of the campaign for women’s voting rights which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst (a very brief cameo from Meryl Streep).

But it centres here on laundry worker and reluctant activist Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), who becomes progressively radicalised as political developments impact on her personal life.

Directed by Sarah Gavron from a script by Abi Morgan, the film is a fictionalised account of the suffragette campaign of ‘words, not deeds’ to force the political establishment to deliver not only the vote to women, but to consider the possibility that ‘there might be a better way to live this life’.