This year’s BFI London Film Festival opening film, Sufragette, has had its UK release date moved forward.
The film, which stars Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff and Ben Whishaw will now arrive in UK cinemas on October 12.
Like the new Bond film Spectre, Suffragette is opening on a Monday instead of the traditional Friday. It debuts in cinemas five days after its European premiere at LFF.
A new poster featuring Mulligan, Bonham Carter and Streep set against a backdrop of the Suffragette Colours had also been released.
The colours are purple for dignity, white for purity, and green for hope. The Suffragettes incorporated these colours into banners, flags, rosettes, badges and jewellery.
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Great post. I recently discovered these film posters and it has made me even more excited about the film! I also like the poster which says ‘mothers, daughters, rebels’.
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While the existence of a film like Suffragette reminds us of the revolution’s origins, and that we’re still fighting the battle for equal pay today, it’s the actual history behind the heroic movement that’s more affecting than the sum of Suffragette itself. That’s disappointing to admit for a film made by women, starring a cast of great women that’s about women. If anything, maybe Suffragette will inspire more people to read Jennifer Lawrence‘s essay on the Hollywood pay gap and incite more change 🙂
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Whenever people say that first wave feminism was peaceful, the examples of bombing and fighting is what comes to mind. First wave feminism was not this peaceful, sunshine and rainbows movement as everyone seems to believe, these women got their hands dirty. We talk about the blatant misandry that comes with feminists today and we seem to forget that some of these women hated men just as much as some modern feminists.
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