With the Golden Globe-winning portrayals of Margaret
Thatcher and Marilyn Monroe, respectively by Meryl Streep and Michelle
Williams, here is a look at women’s biopics in Turkish cinema, or
lack thereof
When you watch Meryl Streep’s old lady buying a pint of milk from a
corner grocery in the opening scene of The Iron Lady, you know you are
in for a treat. A treat, perhaps not in the sense of watching a film
that will sweep you off your feet, but for the sweet anticipation of a
performance that will stick with you.
That old lady is Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female prime minister, an influential figure in 20th-century history, admired and hated for brazing head on into gender and class barriers and trying unabashedly and ruthlessly to implement a classic free-market ideology.
The film might have failed to please both the admirers of the Iron Lady, for focusing too much on her later years with dementia, and her adversaries, who believed the movie portrayed Mrs. Thatcher with far too much sympathy. But none dared to say anything negative about Streep’s Golden Globe-winning portrayal of the Iron Lady which was done with uncanny precision.
That old lady is Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female prime minister, an influential figure in 20th-century history, admired and hated for brazing head on into gender and class barriers and trying unabashedly and ruthlessly to implement a classic free-market ideology.
The film might have failed to please both the admirers of the Iron Lady, for focusing too much on her later years with dementia, and her adversaries, who believed the movie portrayed Mrs. Thatcher with far too much sympathy. But none dared to say anything negative about Streep’s Golden Globe-winning portrayal of the Iron Lady which was done with uncanny precision.
