Suffragette & Youth Teaser Trailers
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10:01AM
Manuel here bringing you two teaser trailers that will surely whet your appetite for fall movie season.
Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan, focuses on the early twentieth century fight for rights for women in England. It stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. With the hashtag #VotingMatters, it’s clear the film is aiming for a zeitgeist-like marketing campaign (for those of us in the US, the UK election is coming up next month).
And then, well, then there’s this gorgeous teaser trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (which we’d discussed back when we checked out what former Foreign Language Oscar winners were up to). The teaser doesn’t tell us much but boy does it show us. I feel we could make an entire Hit Me With Your Best Shot episode on this teaser alone! The film stars Michael Caine, Paul Dano, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel.
Other than making you excited for these two films, do you also find it fascinating the stark contrast between the teaser trailer approaches? Makes you wonder what hashtag Sorrentino should be using for his film, perhaps #YouthMatters? #CaineMatters? #WeiszMatters?
Reader Comments (21)
Woohoo! Michael Caine and Jane Fonda reunited 48 years after Hurry Sundown. I'm sure they still remember it.
Youth: Looks intriguingly stylish if possibly empty.
Suffragette: Looks grim and grey and way too on the nose.
I love me some Rachel Weisz.
ooh, i can't wait 'til maggio
I'm pulling for Suffragette to be EVERYTHING...you know...and bring Carey Mulligan her much deserved Oscar!
As much as I enjoyed The Great Beauty, I'm not looking forward to another Sorrentino movie where every woman is impossibly gorgeous and all the men are... not.
LOL at Glenn's post. Me too!
I'm very excited about Youth (and I'm pretty much always excited for Weisz). But as much as I love the cast in Suffragette, that trailer looks gray and unappealing (especially given that the title brings the unending delight of Sister Suffragette & Glynis Johns to mind).
I'm all in for #WeiszMatters. Let's make it trend. lol
Weitz still didn't get hte boost she deserved from THE DEEP BLUE SEA, did she?
Not enough tease to Suffragette. I need more to decide if I want to give it hard earned time.
Youth could be very pretty and exciting, or very pretty dull. But the teaser is far more intriguing than Suffer.....a....jet.
#MusicMatters. I've only seen The Great Beauty from among Sorrentino's works, but between that and this trailer, he's a master with soundtracks. I'd put him and Xavier Dolan as masters of the use of music scores.
As for Suffragette, how can I not be excited about the film with that cast? But the teaser... meh. Might as well have waited for a full-length trailer.
Volvagia - totally agree about Suffragete. It looked a Screenwriting 101 project.
LOL what Glenn said. Though the split second of Paul Dano with blonde hair and mustache was promising.
Is that Jane Fonda bent over in the sauna?
Nathaniel, TOTALLY! I would've given her the oscar that year! But then she got busy in the theatre and decided to only make blockbusters to pay the bills in the meantime (Bourne Legacy, Oz the Meh and CGIful...). I'm really looking forward to her next few films. This and The Lobster could be interesting (even if she's only part of a big cast) and her working Ciafrance & Fassbender sounds like a pro team.
Rachel Weitz - always so good - I found that trailer very seductive.
Suffragette - it's very early days. The topic is all they wanted to convey.
LadyEdith: (sigh) Except that closing line of dialogue is the kind of REALLY cliche line that I'd doubt you'd want to include in the trailer and that grey aesthetic is TERRIBLE. If it were about Pankhurst around 1908-1910? Okay, time of genuine adversity and intense struggle. But based on how Streep is made up as Pankhurst, this looks like it's supposed to be around the 1926-1928 area. How about an aesthetic to go along with the celebratory atmosphere that's going to result?
@Volvagia:
1. The time period is clearly pre-war, during the most violent period, when the hunger strikes were happening. Prison guards are listed in the credits, and the street violence was predominant during 1906-1914. So the aesthetic (what little we see) is reflective of that.
2. Eduard Grau is the cinematographer, he did "A Single Man", "Suite Francaise", and "Buried" which have all been critically praised for their look.
3. Alice Normington is the production designer, she has been nominated 3x for BAFTA awards and has done "Nowhere Boy" and "Brideshead Revisited" which were excellent.
I don't see any reason to trash this film on the basis of a 30 sec teaser. The topic of slavery has been covered more often than Women's Suffrage, so I would just like to keep an open mind to this rare event.
Was that Anne-Marie Duff I glimpsed in the SUFFRAGETTE trailer?
*imbd's it* Yes it was! Joy!
Agreed on Weisz, she became one of my favorites after The Deep Blue Sea.
After the Oscars, I can't help but feel that Patricia Arquette should be in the Suffragette with Meryl. lol