The movie tells the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of a martyred Burmese general, who returns to her homeland and becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
2 March 1955, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1970, Manchester, England, UK
20 March 1963, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
23 September 1961, London, England, UK
1964, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
8 November 1975, Johannesburg, South Africa
April 21, 2013
The dramatic moments are few and far between, and the film seems like it walks in the footsteps of Richard Attenborough's Gandhi at times. Besson definitely tries to present Suu Kyi in a similarly reverent light.April 26, 2012
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.April 20, 2012
A heavy-handed attempt to sanctify one of the most dignified and uncompromising politicians and human rights champions of recent times.April 27, 2012
The Lady is a slog, a two-and-a-half hour, painted-on-wood exercise in political iconography.April 19, 2012
[It] does indeed deal with a real life, but follows so faithfully the traditional shape of film biography that it feels less convincing.May 09, 2012
Besson hits familiar biopic beats, but the formula could have used something a little more daring to liven things up.May 24, 2012
Great person, but not a great movieMay 24, 2012
Biopic of Ang San Suu Kyi a notch above the restApril 27, 2012
"The Lady" is a two-hour trip into earnestness, from which audiences will want a little liberation of their own.April 13, 2012
This hagiography of Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is earnest, civilized and borderline unendurable.