The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011): France, UK

Reviewed by Tresor Bayibsa. Viewed at the AFI fest 2011.

The lady is a biography about Aung Sun Suu Kyi, A daughter who followed her fathers footsteps in making Burma a Democratic country. Luc Besson does a very good portrait of Aung Sun in this movie. He starts of by Showing her close father-daughter relationship. Her father tells her how rich of life their country was before & how he hopes for change in the country. Then a dramatic twist happens when her father gets brutally murdered just moments after he had spent some precious time with his daughter. Later on we follow Aung Sun as an adult, but also as a mother living in England. After finding out that her mother was sick Aung Sun went back to Burma to see her mother, only to find how bad her precious country had become. With the same resolve as her father she decides to stay in Burma an live up to her fathers legacy; Making Burma a democratic country. throughout this movie we follow Aung Sun & her hard struggle to fulfill her fathers dreams and all of the people of Burma who supported him.

This movie portraits this house mother who endured a lot of hard times & and had to make many personal sacrifices over more than a decades time, to ensure that her fellow countrymen deserves what is best for them. All her methods to achieve this we’re peaceful, all she needed was the love & support she received from the country & from her family back at home in England.