Meryl Streep proves yet again that he is one of Hollywood's finest actresses in her latest role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Streep is great, playing Thatcher from her rise to power in the 1970s to her fall and subsequent lapse into near dementia.
The weakness of the film is that the script is not good.We have too many scenes with Maggie speaking with her dead husband Denis,a wasted Jim Broadbent,and not enough of her relationship with her father.We see very little of Maggie's relationship with Edward Heath, the man who promoted her to Education Secretary in 1970, and whom she challenged for leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975.
One of the other flaws with this film is that it is too short for such an eventful life, and it rushes through key events in Maggie's political career.For example, the Falklands War is dealt with so swiftly that it hardly registers. And yet this war lasted 77 days.It was one of major achievements of her administration.It would have been better to focus on one event like this or the Miners Strike to highlight Mrs Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses.
Credit must go to Streep an American, who gets the accent right.We see the Grantham accent replaced with a much more media friendly (trained)accent.
A great cast of actors such as Richard E Grant, Olivia Colman ,Anthony Head and Roger Allam play small roles as colleagues, family and advisers.
Should have been a much better film given the talent involved.
The weakness of the film is that the script is not good.We have too many scenes with Maggie speaking with her dead husband Denis,a wasted Jim Broadbent,and not enough of her relationship with her father.We see very little of Maggie's relationship with Edward Heath, the man who promoted her to Education Secretary in 1970, and whom she challenged for leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975.
One of the other flaws with this film is that it is too short for such an eventful life, and it rushes through key events in Maggie's political career.For example, the Falklands War is dealt with so swiftly that it hardly registers. And yet this war lasted 77 days.It was one of major achievements of her administration.It would have been better to focus on one event like this or the Miners Strike to highlight Mrs Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses.
Credit must go to Streep an American, who gets the accent right.We see the Grantham accent replaced with a much more media friendly (trained)accent.
A great cast of actors such as Richard E Grant, Olivia Colman ,Anthony Head and Roger Allam play small roles as colleagues, family and advisers.
Should have been a much better film given the talent involved.