The Iron Lady (2011)
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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How she agrees to a makeover, including voice lessons worthy of The King’s Speech, to run for leadership of the Conservative Party, an office even she never thought a woman could win.
The effect is like watching a new kind of genre - the political rom-com, with Denis and Margaret courting to a Rodgers and Hammerstein score, and later with the leading lady even getting her own makeover, in this case a sequence reminiscent of "The King's Speech," wherein she loses her querulous trill, fixes her hair and streamlines her look.
…similarities to last year’s “The King’s Speech.”
In some ways, The Iron Lady provides an ironic counterpoint to last year’s much-honored The King’s Speech.
Scheduled for general theatrical release sometime in December (I reviewed a screener submitted by a publicist for the 2011 NYFCO awards meeting), “The Iron Lady” has all the trappings of your typical fawning biopic of the rich and the powerful in line with “The King’s Speech”.
While non-UK audiences may not be all that conversant with 20th century British politics, we’ve had no problem following the history that underpins such recent films as The Queen and The King’s Speech.
( The Last King of Scotland and The Iron Lady come to mind.)
The Iron Lady (2011) approached Margaret Thatcher via the Alzheimer’s disease she suffered in her final years.
He’s sensational, and I’m hard-pressed to recall outside of Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning turn in The Iron Lady the last time I watched an actor be this superb in an otherwise risibly mediocre motion picture.
Saoirse Ronan (opposite Jessica Paré) in Brooklyn Reputable character actors like Julie Walters (Harry Potter), Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady), and Jessica Paré (Mad Men) do solid work in supporting roles in Brooklyn, as characters – each with their individual quirks – who provide Eilis with different forms of guidance over the course of her journey, both physical and emotional.
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Her talent has graced other beautiful films such as Victoria and Abdul , Florence Foster Jenkins, and The Iron Lady.
He previously won Oscars for his work on “The Iron Lady” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”