Aung San Suu Kyi’s courageous story is already known by millions of people around the world.
But Lady Of No Fear went beyond the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s remarkable fight for democracy to give more of an insight into her personal life and the many sacrifices she has made for her country.
Using interviews with her friends, interspersed with old photographs and recordings of her own speeches, the documentary explored her personal history.
It began with the time she spent at Oxford University, when she met Dr Michael Aris, before focusing on her domestic life as a housewife in England, bringing up the couple’s two sons.
The turning point in the family’s life came in 1988 when Aung San Suu Kyi went to Burma, not knowing that she would never return to England.
The film adequately portrayed, without judgement, the many sacrifices she has made, including leaving behind those she loved and not being able to attend her husband’s funeral.
Speaking about her long battle for democracy and the many years she has spent under house arrest her friends described how she has kept going thanks to a combination of her “sweet, loving, sensitive side” as well as her “hard, demanding, almost ruthless, side”.
Both informative and inspiring, this film was a perfect introduction to this year’s Brighton Festival.
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