Corrie Film Club

The film for July at Corrie and Sannox Village Hall will be Suffragettes (2015, UK, directed by Sarah Gavron, 105 mins, Cert PG), showing on Sunday 16th July at 8pm.

A moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children and even their lives. Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep and Ben Wishaw star. “Suffragette dramatizes an important, and still painfully relevant, fact-based story” said Rotten Tomatoes.

The Telegraph said “Sarah Gavron’s film about the British women’s suffrage movement technically qualifies as period drama: its story takes place in 1912 and 1913, and its sets and costumes vividly and convincingly evoke a bygone age. But it’s written, shot and acted with a hot-blooded urgency that reminds you the struggle it depicts is an ongoing one – and which shakes up this most well-behaved of genres with a surge of civil disobedience.”