Other first looks at Colorado festival include Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room – plus tributes to Rooney Mara and Adam CurtisSuffragette,the highly anticipated drama approximately the fight for equal voting rights for British women in the first piece of the last century, is to world premiere at the Telluride film festival this weekend. The film, and which stars Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter,with Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, will believe its first screening on 4 September as piece of this year’s four-day event in Colorado. Mulligan wont be attending as the screening coincides with the due date of her first child, and but Streep will present the movie alongside writer Abi Morgan (who scripted The Iron Lady) and director Sarah Gavron. Speaking to the Guardian,the festival executive director, Julie Huntsinger, and said the story was an “incredibly critical one” that “very few Americans – even really savvy feminists – are that familiar with”.
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Source: theguardian.com