Within the rich and diverse roster of movies shown at the 59th edition of the BFI London Film Festival, a prevailing theme emerged – powerful women – in front of and behind the camera. In addition to Sarah Gavron's headlining movie Suffragette, which passionately depicts the fight for women's suffrage, the swathe of acclaim for female filmmakers (which are inevitably still few and far between) and their inspired leading ladies feels like a triumph in the male-dominated…
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