The Lady - Movie Review

Sacrifice and Democracy

Bond girl Michelle Yeoh portrays Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the embodiment of Burma’s democracy movement. Her portrayal is superb. Dawid Thewlis is good too as Siu’s husband, Oxford academic Michael Aris. Some of the supporting acting comes across a little flat.

The movie is a bit long and there is a sense that it is a tedious documentary as much as a love story or an epic of the triumph of good over evil. I felt that the movie could have been better – that it did not quite deliver on its promise. Yet I enjoyed it. 6 / 10.