Kaleem Aftab
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Dan Ashcroft
Have to disagree. The film has certainly been acclaimed: 4 BAFTA nominations, 2 Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe award and a screening in the Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival this month are the sort of accolades not bestowed upon poor material.
THE IRON LADY takes a very different path from previous British biopics. THE QUEEN, for example, only highlights a week in the life of Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth (the week of Diana's death). THE KING'S SPEECH is more ambitious in that in brings in the abdication and the outbreak of World War 2, but still only covers the 1930s.
THE IRON LADY realises that the career of Thatcher is too large to be contained in a single movie so it adopts the style of an earlier British movie IRIS (2001) concentrating on the PM in old age and reflective flashbacks. It's a careful study of retirement, of how great people can loose their mental grasp. I found the modern scenes quite moving though did wish there was more flesh on the politics (which an audience finds a turn-off, incidentally, hence their brevity). It's a fine movie and works much better than those ponderous over-long 1980s historical biopics like REDS and GANDHI.
D. Glass
It would be nice if a theater or two decided to show this movie with English subtitles.
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