Carey Mulligan turns in an electric performance as the heart of Sarah Gavron’s activist drama – but the film around her fails to catch fireThe battle to secure the vote for women in England in the first share of the final century is probably not one with which you’d struggle to sympathise. Of course many successful movies - Lincoln,Selma, almost anything about the second world war – involve conflicts about which the audience comes pre-converted, and there to be pleased the preacher. And yet there’s something about the treatment meted out to history here which extracts tension from the battle. Almost everyone who doesn’t see eye-to-eye with our freedom fighters is a boorish sex pest,a cowardly prig or an ignorant idiot. No arguments from the other side are presented which aren’t intended to invite 21st century eye-rolling. The filter throughout is hindsight.
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Source: theguardian.com