{"id":33505,"date":"2013-09-07T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33505"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:40:38","slug":"belle-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33505","title":{"rendered":"Belle [World Premiere]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belle [World Premiere]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto International Film Festival 2013<\/a>
\nTIFF Bell Lightbox
\nReitman Square
\n350 King Street West
\nToronto, Ontario, Canada
\n2013-09-05 through 2013-09-15<\/p>\n

Film Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Amma Asante<\/a><\/strong>
\n2013
\n105 minutes<\/p>\n

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw<\/a> takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson<\/a> and Canada\u2019s Sarah Gadon<\/a> in the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle<\/a>, the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain.<\/p>\n

Fans of English period drama are accustomed to its gorgeous settings, social graces, and sophisticated language. But what’s often missing from those adaptations of Jane Austen<\/a> or the Bront\u00ebs<\/a> is the institution at the foundation of that refined life: slavery. Austen wrote about how the slave trade made British gentry wealthy, but until now no film has brought both the glory and the contradictions of that life to the screen in such a powerful fashion.<\/p>\n

In late eighteenth century England, Dido Elizabeth Belle is born to a white British admiral and a black Caribbean slave. The admiral’s well-bred family is appalled, but when he returns to sea, custom dictates that they raise his child as an aristocrat. Britain’s imposing Lord Mansfield<\/a> (Tom Wilkinson) is both Dido’s uncle and the family patriarch, and instructs this biracial young woman (Gugu Mbatha Raw) to respect both the law and the social codes of her station. She is a lady, but an embarrassment. How is she ever to marry?…<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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