The Lady

“From House Arrest to Parliament”

Why does a woman living quietly in England with her husband and two sons end up as the face of a democracy movement in Burma? Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) is pulled into that role, and her marriage to the writer Michael Aris (David Thewlis) has to bend around it. Luc Besson keeps returning to Aris at his desk, the two sons nearby, the family's distance growing on the page.