Belle (Blu-ray) PG
Based on the inspiring true story
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 26, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Matthew Goode, Sarah Gadon & Emily Watson | |
Performer: | Penelope Wilton, Alan McKenna & Miranda Richardson | |
Directed by | Amma Asante | |
Screenwriting by | Misan Sagay | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Damian Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Ben Smithard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A spirited, good-natured and crowd-pleasing costume drama.
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Independent (UK)
BELLE subtly skewers the absurd rules and hypocrisies of class. But the real takeaway is Mbatha-Raw. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Belle has a great lead performance from a Black actress in a Black woman director's film of a Black woman's script about a Black woman in European history (who wasn't a slave): an opportunity that doesn't come very often for audiences.
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Bitch Flicks
Rating: 4/5 --
The teenage Dido Elizabeth Belle is impressively played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw with a tender sensibility and a growing awareness.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A superbly plum role inhabited gloriously by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Asante's own work of art is lamentably cautious but does, ultimately, throw up things we haven't seen before. It's pretty, in other words, but not entirely vacant.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
Race, love and social politics are deftly handled in Amma Asante's forcefully-acted feminist period drama.
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Little White Lies
Product Description:
Set in 18th century England and based on a real story, Amma Asante's BELLE stars relative Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the title character - full name, Dido Elizabeth Belle. She is the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of British Admiral Sir John Lindsay and a black woman he had an affair with while serving overseas. Lindsay brings her to his uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) who along with his wife Lady Mansfield (mily Watson) are already raising Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), another niece the same age as Dido. Though Lady Mansfield fears scandal having a dark-skinned child as part of the home, Dido's father reminds them that his daughter does have the right to live there because of her lineage, and Lord Mansfield, a Lord Chief Justice of Britain, agrees. Belle and Elizabeth quickly become best friends, and when they come of age each begins courting suitors. Elizabeth is pursued by James Ashford (Tom Felton), a smarmy and racist manipulator who wants to marry her in order to please his equally conniving mother (Miranda Richardson) by increasing his own family's wealth and standing, while Dido proves alluring to James' brother Oliver (James Norton). However Dido's deepest affections are for John Davinier (Sam Reid), an idealistic young lawyer who is trying to sway Lord Mansfield on a crucial case before the high court that will have profound implications for Britain's slave trade.
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- Sales Rank: 36,130
- UPC: 024543928102
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