Sarah Gavron: Suffragette City
By Alex Simon
A century has passed since the suffrage movement swept the U.S. and the U.K. in a heated, often violent battle waged by women who were fed up with being second-class citizens, symbolized and crystalized by their being refused the right to vote. Director Sarah Gavron, whose acclaimed first feature Brick Lane (2007) also dealt with feminist issues, brings the story to life with her latest film, Suffragette. Set in 1912, the film follows Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a working class woman employed in a laundry along with her husband (Ben Whishaw). Maud becomes fed up with the way she and the other women in the laundry are treated, and soon finds herself on the front lines of the suffrage movement: picketing, striking and going to greater, more violent extremes, to make their voices heard. The film co-stars Brendan Gleeson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne-Marie Duff and Meryl Streep,...
By Alex Simon
A century has passed since the suffrage movement swept the U.S. and the U.K. in a heated, often violent battle waged by women who were fed up with being second-class citizens, symbolized and crystalized by their being refused the right to vote. Director Sarah Gavron, whose acclaimed first feature Brick Lane (2007) also dealt with feminist issues, brings the story to life with her latest film, Suffragette. Set in 1912, the film follows Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a working class woman employed in a laundry along with her husband (Ben Whishaw). Maud becomes fed up with the way she and the other women in the laundry are treated, and soon finds herself on the front lines of the suffrage movement: picketing, striking and going to greater, more violent extremes, to make their voices heard. The film co-stars Brendan Gleeson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne-Marie Duff and Meryl Streep,...
- 10/23/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Reda Kateb Takes an Oath in Hippocrates
By Alex Simon
French actor Reda Kateb always knew he was a born actor. The son of an Algerian actor father and French mother (and grandnephew of celebrated Algerian writer Kateb Yacine), Reda grew up watching his father perform on stages across Europe. After deciding himself to “enter the family business” as a child, honing his skills reciting his great uncle’s texts, Reda stayed busy on the stage as well, making his film debut in the internationally-lauded A Prophet in 2009.
Reda’s latest film, Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor, traces the relationship between two young physicians (Kateb and Vincent Lacoste) doing their internships in a Parisian hospital. Reda’s work captured him a 2014 César Award as Best Supporting Actor. The film opens in the U.S. today, June 19.
Reda spoke to us by phone from his home in France. Here’s...
By Alex Simon
French actor Reda Kateb always knew he was a born actor. The son of an Algerian actor father and French mother (and grandnephew of celebrated Algerian writer Kateb Yacine), Reda grew up watching his father perform on stages across Europe. After deciding himself to “enter the family business” as a child, honing his skills reciting his great uncle’s texts, Reda stayed busy on the stage as well, making his film debut in the internationally-lauded A Prophet in 2009.
Reda’s latest film, Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor, traces the relationship between two young physicians (Kateb and Vincent Lacoste) doing their internships in a Parisian hospital. Reda’s work captured him a 2014 César Award as Best Supporting Actor. The film opens in the U.S. today, June 19.
Reda spoke to us by phone from his home in France. Here’s...
- 6/19/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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