MyanmarLuc Besson takes on the inspiring true story of Burmese pro-democracy activist, leader and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and the tenacious long-distance bond she maintained with her British husband, Michael Aris (David Thewlis) while under house arrest for over a decade. -- (C) TIFF
Cast
Production
| Director: | Luc Besson |
| Producer: | Luc Besson (producer (uncredited) |
| Andy Harries (producer) | |
| Didier Hoarau (line producer) | |
| Jane Robertson (line producer: UK) | |
| Virginie Silla (producer) | |
| Jean Todt (associate producer) | |
| Writer: | Rebecca Frayn (screenplay) |
Reviews for The Lady
New York Post
As ferrous as Margaret Thatcher but as elegant as the trademark flowers in her hair, “The Lady” is the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who gets her due in an appropriately respectful and dignified biopic.
Read review12 Apr 2012
Film4
Given the iconic status of Aung San Suu Kyi – the Nobel Prize winner, face of world peace and symbol of hope for millions – there's little need for cinematic grandiosity. For the first half an hour at least, The Lady is almost unrecognisable...
Movie Line
There’s something immobile at the center of The Lady, a kind of Botoxed biopic with an unlikely director — Luc Besson — manning the syringe. Technically, that something is the figure of Aung San Suu Kyi: Here the Burmese activist is played by...
Read review1 Dec 2011
Real.com
The Lady is Besson’s own love story, in fact, to his political heroine and more than well intentioned. It is virtually impossible not to rally behind Daw Suu and want retribution for the injustices that the film touches on, especially with such a solid...
Read review28 Dec 2011
MovieXclusive.com
There is a deeply inspirational tale at the heart of Luc Besson’s biography on the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, but too little rises above the humdrum in ‘The Lady’. His good intentions notwithstanding, Besson is quite out of his...
External Links
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt1802197/ |
| Movie Insider: | www.movieinsider.com/m8488/the-lady/ |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lady_2011/ |
| Wikipedia: | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_(2011_film) |
Reviews for The Lady
New York Post
As ferrous as Margaret Thatcher but as elegant as the trademark flowers in her hair, “The Lady” is the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who gets her due in an appropriately respectful and dignified biopic.
Read review12 Apr 2012
Film4
Given the iconic status of Aung San Suu Kyi – the Nobel Prize winner, face of world peace and symbol of hope for millions – there's little need for cinematic grandiosity. For the first half an hour at least, The Lady is almost unrecognisable...
Movie Line
There’s something immobile at the center of The Lady, a kind of Botoxed biopic with an unlikely director — Luc Besson — manning the syringe. Technically, that something is the figure of Aung San Suu Kyi: Here the Burmese activist is played by...
Read review1 Dec 2011
Real.com
The Lady is Besson’s own love story, in fact, to his political heroine and more than well intentioned. It is virtually impossible not to rally behind Daw Suu and want retribution for the injustices that the film touches on, especially with such a solid...
Read review28 Dec 2011
MovieXclusive.com
There is a deeply inspirational tale at the heart of Luc Besson’s biography on the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, but too little rises above the humdrum in ‘The Lady’. His good intentions notwithstanding, Besson is quite out of his...
London Evening Standard
Under these circumstances, the Besson of La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue and Subway is unrecognisable and The Lady fades into a ponderous biography that only tells part of the story.
Read review23 Dec 2011
The Telegraph
Pity anyone who files into a screening of The Lady expecting to see Meryl Streep’s Bafta-baiting turn as Margaret Thatcher. While this wan tribute to the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and Streep’s Thatcher film have similar names...
Read review29 Dec 2011
Susan Granger Entertainment Commentaries
Back in 1947, Suu Kyi’s idyllic childhood was shattered when her beloved father, General Aung San, who negotiated Burma’s independence, was assassinated in Rangoon while planning the formation of a new government. He became a martyr to the...
Read review10 Mar 2012
Mirror.co.uk
Still, it’s a solid summary of the life of an inspiring woman, as well as a touching tearjerker about a committed marriage under enormous strain.
Read review30 Dec 2011
Kornang
หนังเล่าเรื่องราวความรักระหว่าง สามี - ภรรยา แม่ - ลูก พ่อ - ลูก ได้อย่า่งซึ้งกินใจ ความรู้สึกโดดเดี่ยวอ้างว้าง ความเหงา ที่ผมสัมผัสได้จากการแสดงของ มิเชล โหย่ว ทำให้ผู้ชมในรอบกาล่าถึงกับลุกขึ้นปรบมืออย่างพร้อมเพรียงกัน หนึ่งในนั้นคงมี นายกรัฐมนตรีของ...
Digital Spy
If you look beyond Jason 'The Stath' Statham's Transporter, Luc Besson has a history of more unconventional movie heroes. There's been his animated Arthur and Jean Reno's compromised Léon, Milla Jovovich's Joan of Arc and the superfast slacker Taxi man..
Read review30 Dec 2011
Birmingham Mail
JOHN Boorman made a 1995 film called Beyond Rangoon, in which Patricia Arquette played a doctor called Laura Bowman.The action was set in 1988 when she was leaving behind the murder of her husband and son in the US.After travelling to Burma with...
Read review30 Dec 2011
TotalFilm.com
There’s no question that the jaw-crashing story of Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi deserves telling. Winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, the wife and mother became a symbol of the struggle for democracy in her own dictatorled country after enduring.
Read review16 Dec 2011
Sky Movies HD
Burma's inspirational democratic campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi was sustained over years of oppression by the steadfast support of her English husband...and the sugary tones of Dave Lee Travis on the BBC World Service.
Time Out London
Michelle Yeoh plays political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi in this biopic from Luc Besson. Focusing on her relationship with British husband Michael Aris (David Thewlis), it tells the story of their enforced separation while the pro-democracy campaigner was
Mthai Movie
The Lady นั้นถือว่าเป็นหนังชีวประวัติของ อองซานซุจี ที่ต้องนับถือด้านการแสดงของ มิเชล โหย่ว และ การถ่ายภาพสวยๆของหนัง แต่นอกจากนั้น ผมกลับรู้สึกค่อนข้างเสียดายกับการตัดต่อและลำดับภาพของหนังพอสมควรที่ไม่ค่อยต่อเนื่อง เอาเป็นว่านี้ถือเป็นหนังชีวประวัติ...
Read review4 Feb 2012
Cast
| Michelle Yeoh | ... | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| David Thewlis | ... | Michael Aris |
| Jonathan Raggett | ... | Kim Aris |
| Jonathan Woodhouse | ... | Alexander Aris |
| Susan Wooldridge | ... | Lucinda Philips |
| Benedict Wong | ... | Karma Phuntsho |
| Flint Bangkok | ... | Nyo Ohn Myint | |
| Guy Barwell | ... | Military Policeman | |
| Sahajak Boonthanakit | ... | Leo Nichols |
| Antony Hickling | ... | BBC journalist (voice) | |
| William Hope | ... | James Baker |
| Teerawat Mulvilai | ... | Soldier / Bad News | |
| Agga Poechit | ... | Tan Shwe | |
| Marian Yu | ... | Daw Khin Kyi - the Mother | |
| Donatienne Dupont | ... | Marie-Laure Aris | |
| Victoria Sanvalli | ... | Ma Then | |
| Nay Myo Thant | ... | Win Thein | |
| Danny Toeng | ... | Colonel Than Tun | |
| Dujdao Vadhanapakorn | ... | Nita May | |
| Frank Walmsley | ... | BBC Journalist | |
 | Bruce Blain | ... | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Martin John King | ... | Waiter (uncredited) | |
| Akira Koieyama | ... | Japanese Delegate (uncredited) | |
| Paul Brennen | ... | Dr. Jones (uncredited) |
Production
| Director: | Luc Besson |
| Producer: | Luc Besson (producer (uncredited) |
| Andy Harries (producer) | |
| Didier Hoarau (line producer) | |
| Jane Robertson (line producer: UK) | |
| Virginie Silla (producer) | |
| Jean Todt (associate producer) | |
| Writer: | Rebecca Frayn (screenplay) |
| Composer: | Eric Serra |
| Cinematographer: | Thierry Arbogast (director of photography) |
| Editing: | Julien Rey |
| Casting: | Raweeporn 'Non' Srimonju |
| Fiona Weir | |
| Production Design: | Hugues Tissandier |
| Art Director: | Gilles Boillot |
| Stéphane Robuchon | |
| Thierry Zemmour | |
| Dominique Moisan | |
| Costume Design: | Olivier Bériot |
| Makeup: | Sarah Jane Marks (makeup assistant: UK) |
| Stéphane Robert (key makeup artist) | |
| Marthe Faucouit (makeup artist: France) | |
| Caroline Groves (makeup assistant: UK) | |
| Gary Jordan (makeup assistant: UK) | |
| Kay Philips (hair stylist: France) | |
| Nicky South (makeup assistant: UK) | |
| Ghislaine Tortereau (makeup department head) | |
| Production Management: | David Edouard (unit manager assistant: France) |
| Marc Guidetti (unit manager) | |
| Anchittha Phongchub (production manager: Thailand) | |
| Dorothée Santucci (unit manager assistant: France) | |
| David Lemenan (unit manager assistant) | |
| William Trillaud (unit manager assistant: France) | |
| Olivier Gravenhorst (post-production manager: Scanlab) | |
| Varillian Gumusel (post-production manager: L.T.C.) | |
| Eric Martin (digital grading post-production supervisor: Duboi) | |
| Stéphane Martine (digital post-production manager: Duboi) | |
| Agnès Sébenne (head of post-production) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | Europa Corp. |
| Left Bank Pictures | |
| France 2 Cinéma |
| United States | 11 Apr 2012 | |
| France | 30 Nov 2011 | |
| Belgium | 21 Dec 2011 | |
| United Kingdom | 30 Dec 2011 | |
| Netherlands | 19 Jan 2012 | |
| Australia | 19 Apr 2012 | |
| Norway | 27 Apr 2012 | |
| Thailand | 2 Feb 2012 | |
| Canada | 27 Apr 2012 | |
| Korea, Republic of | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| Italy | 23 Mar 2012 | |
| Sweden | 4 Apr 2012 | |
| Switzerland | 15 Mar 2012 | |
| Ireland | 30 Dec 2011 | |
| Portugal | 12 Jan 2012 | |
| Hong Kong | 9 Feb 2012 | |
| Singapore | 1 Mar 2012 | |
| Taiwan | 16 Mar 2012 | |
| Germany | 5 Apr 2012 | |
| Indonesia | 5 Apr 2012 | |
| Denmark | 26 Apr 2012 | |
| Poland | 27 Apr 2012 | |
| Malaysia | 3 May 2012 | |
| Japan | 21 Jul 2012 | |
| Russian Federation | 28 Jun 2012 | |
| Chile | 5 Jul 2012 | |
| Mexico | 13 Jul 2012 | |
| Brazil | 27 Jul 2012 | |
| Argentina | 9 Aug 2012 | |
| Peru | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| Venezuela | 22 Mar 2013 |
