The Lady

For 24 years, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has opposed Burma’s oppressive military regime and advocated for true democracy for her people—at great personal cost, including 15 years of house arrest and years of separation from her English husband and two sons. With Malaysian-Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh in the title role, Luc Besson’s The Lady illuminates the contemporary politics of this Southeast Asian country through the filter of an epic love story between the heiress of a Burmese political dynasty and an Oxford professor of Tibetan and Himalayan studies....  read more