Members of Bridport feminists’ group BridFem will be giving an introduction to the hit film Suffragette (12A) when it is screened at Bridport Electric Palace on Friday 11 December.
They will be showing a short film about the Bridport Wildcats project in which earlier this year they recreated the strike by female networkers fighting for better pay in 1912.
The introduction starts at 7pm with the film beginning at 7.30pm. Tickets are £4 on the door.
Suffragette, which stars Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham-Carter, has wowed the critics Said Time Out magazine: “Nearly 100 years after smashing shop windows and blowing up letterboxes, the British suffragettes finally get a film they deserve.”
It tells the story of how in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state in the quest for equal rights.
