The Lady is one movie which I missed in the cinemas. I have been trying to search for it and watch it free online or perhaps a free download from any of the movie portals. I am fortunate to find it on youtube and it is given at the end of the page.
The Lady is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a backdrop of political turmoil that continues today. The Lady was written over a period of three years by Rebecca Frayn. Interviews with key figures in Aung San Suu Kyi's entourage enabled her to reconstruct for the first time the true story of Burma's national heroine.
Michelle Yeoh is superb as Suu Kyi, daughter of modern Burma’s founder Aung San, an Oxford academic, wife of British Tibetan scholar Michael Aris (well handled by David Thewlis, who also plays his own twin), and mother raising two young sons in their English home.
She finds herself thrust into politics when she returns to Burma to care for her ailing mother and discovers a nation struggling beneath a brutal military regime and is persuaded by supporters to stay to found the National League for Democracy, taking on a crazy general who relies on soothsayers to tell him how to run the country.
The story covers all these bases efficiently in telling Suu Kyi’s tale, focusing on the period from 1988 to 1999. The Lady is little more than a history lesson — although a beautifully presented one — wrapped in the pink gloss of a G-rated potboiler evidenced in Suu Kyi’s and Michael’s storybook romance.
We never get to the heart of the matter: why did she feel so compelled to choose country over family? And why did husband Michael so easily accept her decision?
Glimpses of the enormous price Suu Kyi is forced to pay comes as Michael faces a cancer diagnosis and she weighs the agony of losing her husband against the knowledge the Burmese government would never let her back into the country she is determined to liberate if she went home to England.
Yeoh is inspiring as the serene Suu Kyi, a thin figure for whom an always-present ring of orchids in her hair could weigh her down. If only she showed us the nature of her strength as well. Watch an interview with her here.
Below are some beautiful scenes from the movie. Enjoy!
The Lady is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a backdrop of political turmoil that continues today. The Lady was written over a period of three years by Rebecca Frayn. Interviews with key figures in Aung San Suu Kyi's entourage enabled her to reconstruct for the first time the true story of Burma's national heroine.
Michelle Yeoh is superb as Suu Kyi, daughter of modern Burma’s founder Aung San, an Oxford academic, wife of British Tibetan scholar Michael Aris (well handled by David Thewlis, who also plays his own twin), and mother raising two young sons in their English home.
She finds herself thrust into politics when she returns to Burma to care for her ailing mother and discovers a nation struggling beneath a brutal military regime and is persuaded by supporters to stay to found the National League for Democracy, taking on a crazy general who relies on soothsayers to tell him how to run the country.
The story covers all these bases efficiently in telling Suu Kyi’s tale, focusing on the period from 1988 to 1999. The Lady is little more than a history lesson — although a beautifully presented one — wrapped in the pink gloss of a G-rated potboiler evidenced in Suu Kyi’s and Michael’s storybook romance.
We never get to the heart of the matter: why did she feel so compelled to choose country over family? And why did husband Michael so easily accept her decision?
Glimpses of the enormous price Suu Kyi is forced to pay comes as Michael faces a cancer diagnosis and she weighs the agony of losing her husband against the knowledge the Burmese government would never let her back into the country she is determined to liberate if she went home to England.
Yeoh is inspiring as the serene Suu Kyi, a thin figure for whom an always-present ring of orchids in her hair could weigh her down. If only she showed us the nature of her strength as well. Watch an interview with her here.
Below are some beautiful scenes from the movie. Enjoy!
The movie above is mostly in English. There are however some segments where Burmese is spoken but no English sub-titles are displayed. You may wish to separately download the sub-titles in English from here.
Alternatively, you can also watch the movie here. ENJOY!!
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