The Lady

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Movie
German title The Lady
Original title Dans la Lumière
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Luc Besson
script Rebecca Frayn
Luc Besson
production Virginie Besson-Silla
Andy Harries
music Eric Serra
camera Thierry Arbogast
cut Julien Rey
occupation

The Lady is a biopic by filmmaker Luc Besson about the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi , who was under house arrest for 15 years for political reasons, and about her tragic marriage.

The film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2011, and opened in Germany on April 5, 2012.

background

Michelle Yeoh brought this project to Luc Besson because she valued him for directing films about strong women before. Luc Besson accepted the project, but frankly admitted certain doubts as to whether he could have done such a script at the age of 25.

During filming, it became known that Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest had just been lifted. Michelle Yeoh was even allowed to visit.

Even though she was always petite, Michelle Yeoh still lost weight for the role. When asked about her commitment to this film, she described it as an "incredible love story" against the backdrop of political turmoil.

reception

Paris Match endorsed the leading actress' assessment, ruling that it was an extraordinary love story between Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband Michael Aris and a woman who sacrificed her personal happiness for her people.

In 2012 the film received the Cinema for Peace , an international film award for human rights in collaboration with Amnesty International and the Human Rights Film Network.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In La Lumière . Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved on May 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Produced by: Virginie Besson-Silla, Andy Harries . Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved on May 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ Luc Besson film about Aung San Suu Kyi stars Michelle Yeoh as the Burmese democracy activist . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ A film about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19, 1945), the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ Aung San Suu Kyi has spent nearly fifteen of the last twenty one years under house arrest in Burma . Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved on May 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  7. ^ It was Yeoh who took the project to Besson's company EuropaCorp, which is fully financing . Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved on May 23, 2011.
  8. ^ "Nikita, Adèle Blanc-Sec, Leeloo, dans Le Cinquième Elément ... Luc a toujours eu un penchant pour les personnages féminins très forts", explique l'actrice. . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  9. ↑ J'ai 50 ans, et je sais que je n'aurais pas su réaliser ce film à 25 ", avoue le réalisateur. (I'm 50 years old now and I think that I don't know how to make the film if I were 25.) Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  10. ^ Later, during a break in filming, Yeoh would fly to Rangoon to meet with Suu Kyi. "It was like visiting a family friend," Yeoh says. . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  11. ↑ Your son Kim was there too and we had a very informal conversation . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  12. ↑ Michelle Yeoh: Pour incarner Aung San Suu Kyi, elle a perdu de nombreux kilos! (To play Aung San Suu Kyi, she lost a lot of pounds!) . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  13. ↑ Yeoh described the movie as “an incredible love story that has political tower within,” referring to Suu Kyi's relationship with her husband, Briton Michael Aris. . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  14. ^ The Lady est une histoire d'amour hors du commun, celle d'un homme, Michael Aris, et surtout d'une femme d'exception, Aung San Suu Kyi, qui sacrifiera son bonheur personnel pour celui de son peuple . Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  15. ↑ Prices 2012 accessed from the Internet Movie Database