Set for a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, we have the first teaser for Luc Besson‘s biopic of activist Aung San Suu Kyi, played by Michelle Yeoh. We already got a glimpse of much of this footage in a CNN special, but you can now see it in its uninterrupted form below via Yahoo.
After being behind such action-heavy flicks like Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, Taken and next week’s Colombiana, I’m quite intrigued at what he can bring to what looks to be a run-of-the-mill political biopic drama. The lush photography is present, but I’ll have to wait until next month to see if the story delivers. Check out the trailer below.
Synopsis:
The Lady is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. The Lady also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement.
The Lady will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
What do you think of this trailer and this genre Besson is tackling?