The Lady (2011)

Review first published in S&S Feb 2012 Synopsis: 1947, Rangoon. Burmese independence architect Aung San is assassinated. In 1988, his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her husband Michael Aris and two sons in Oxford while she visits, ostensibly for “a week, maybe two”, her ailing mother and motherland. Witnessing the ruling junta‘s brutality, Suu…