Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Rebecca Frayn (screenplay)
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis and William Hope
Production Co: Europa Corp., France 3 Cinéma, Left Bank Pictures
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A teaser trailer has finally been released for the upcoming film telling the story of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady.
French director Luc Besson is no stranger to making highly-acclaimed films - Leon, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Nikita, you name it. But the one that truly tops the bill is The Lady. One could be mesmerized by simply watching the teaser trailer - a regime struggling to crush the voices of a people; a woman who stood up and became the voice of the people.
Maybe it my personal bias; as you can see, I have great admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi and intensely support the struggle for democracy in Burma - I'm even a volunteer for Burma Action Ireland, a non-profit organization based here in Dublin, Ireland committed to the cause of human rights and freedom for the Burmese people. Oh well.
The Lady focuses on how Aung San Suu Kyi decided to leave her husband, British academic Michael Aris and their two sons in England in 1988 to go back to her country to take care of her ailing mother - while being pulled into the centre of Burma's political storm as the daughter of Burmese independence hero, Aung San, eventually leading the pro-democracy movement that led the ruling military regime to place her under house arrest - even though two years later, she would be elected as Burma's prime minister as her party, the National League of Democracy, would win a landslide victory. It will also focus on how she made another, but a more heartbreaking choice - whether to continue her struggle for her country's freedom or to return to England to take care of her husband, who was dying of cancer.
Aung San Suu Kyi will be played by Michelle Yeoh, who actually met the real Lady last November during a visit to Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon, just weeks after she was released from seven years of house arrest. Yeoh was soon blacklisted by the military regime and banned from returning to Burma.
It's no surprise that Besson decided to shoot the film as quietly as possible, due to the intense scrutiny that Daw Suu is still enduring from the government; while she has successfully travelled to the countryside to meet with supporters (which was considered a real test of her freedom) and recently met with General Thein Sein, in Napyidaw for rare talks, many fear that the regime will still find a way to place once again under house arrest.
The Lady will premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, but the official release date is yet to be set.
---Originally posted on "The Demoskratos Blog: Of the People, By the People, For the People" - August 25, 2011
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