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5 January 2012

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The Iron Lady

MOVIE RELEASE – MERYL STREEP AS MARGARET THATCHER

IN FUTURE ISSUES, An Phoblacht will be carrying more reviews and previews so we’ve been talking during the past few weeks to distributors to get a preview of the new film about Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady is on general release from 6 January, the day after this edition is printed. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to get a preview but someone who has seen it is the Editor of Total Politics, which is certainly neither left-wing nor republican.
“The Iron Lady is a wild, colourful, fast-paced swoosh through a career that transformed its eponymous character from determined election candidate to scarred leader,” Ben Duckworth writes in the current edition of the London-based monthly. But, Duckworth cautions (and he’s speaking to a British audience, remember):
“Arrive at the cinema in the mood to be entertained rather than informed and you will enjoy this. The film-makers want the audience to root for a character who makes it to the top through her own bloody-minded determination.”
The sinking of The Belgrano during the Malvinas/Falklands War is one of the “red-meat moments for all Thatcher supporters”, Ben Duckworth says, adding:
“For those who weren’t supporters, popcorn boxes will be crushed with anger at frustration at a sympathetic portrayal of a divisive Prime Minister. For one veteran left-wing journalist in the screening Total Politics attended, it was overwhelming: he was shouting at the screen halfway through.”
No preview report we’ve seen mentions the H-Blocks Hunger Strikes.
You have been warned.

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