Movie

Through the Mill

2018 · 91 min

A stirring, earnest period drama that turns a labour strike into a song-filled fight for dignity, asking patience but rewarding it with feeling.

Overview: Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
How it feels: Earnest, uplifting, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Class, gender, justice, family
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
gender
justice
family
rebellion
Places: small town
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none