Pathe has released the first picture from Sarah Gavron‘s Suffragette, a film following 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. The picture features a first look at Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, but the film co-stars an impressive cast including Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Adrian Schiller and Geoff Bell.
Here’s the official synopsis:
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 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.
This clearly has the makings of an Oscar contender, but at the moment the film is without domestic distribution, which means we may have to wait until the fall film festival circuit to determine whether it will even hit theaters this year, let alone have an Oscar campaign.
