Belle (2013)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Amma Asante
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
A mulatto girl in the late 1700s is brought up by her father's uncle, the Lord Chief Justice, but learns to be excluded from social gatherings because of her colour. She is all the more taken up by the affair of the moment, the drowning of the Zong slaves (more specifically the refusal of the insurers to pay), and by the local cleric's idealistic firebrand of a son who would use the law to create a better world.
Review:
This handsome period drama combines Austenian match and counter match with the righteous passion of a political cause cogently championed. Perhaps the young Belle is given rather too many choicely eloquent ripostes for an autodidact half caste, but this is a supremely well written piece guaranteed to rouse audience indignation, and the cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Wilkinson.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Amma Asante
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
A mulatto girl in the late 1700s is brought up by her father's uncle, the Lord Chief Justice, but learns to be excluded from social gatherings because of her colour. She is all the more taken up by the affair of the moment, the drowning of the Zong slaves (more specifically the refusal of the insurers to pay), and by the local cleric's idealistic firebrand of a son who would use the law to create a better world.
Review:
This handsome period drama combines Austenian match and counter match with the righteous passion of a political cause cogently championed. Perhaps the young Belle is given rather too many choicely eloquent ripostes for an autodidact half caste, but this is a supremely well written piece guaranteed to rouse audience indignation, and the cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Wilkinson.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Amma Asante
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
A mulatto girl in the late 1700s is brought up by her father's uncle, the Lord Chief Justice, but learns to be excluded from social gatherings because of her colour. She is all the more taken up by the affair of the moment, the drowning of the Zong slaves (more specifically the refusal of the insurers to pay), and by the local cleric's idealistic firebrand of a son who would use the law to create a better world.
Review:
This handsome period drama combines Austenian match and counter match with the righteous passion of a political cause cogently championed. Perhaps the young Belle is given rather too many choicely eloquent ripostes for an autodidact half caste, but this is a supremely well written piece guaranteed to rouse audience indignation, and the cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Wilkinson.