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Pride is a 2014 British LGBT-related historical comedy-drama film written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus. It was screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival,[3][4] where it won the Queer Palm award.[5] Writer Stephen Beresford said a stage musical adaptation involving director Matthew Warchus was being planned.[6]
The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and for the BAFTA for Best British Film, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Imelda Staunton and for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
Plot[edit]
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.[7] The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to accept the group’s support due to the union’s public relations’ worries about being openly associated with a gay group, so the activists instead decided to take their donations directly to Onllwyn, a small mining village in Wales, resulting in an alliance between the two communities. The alliance was unlike any seen before but was successful.[7]
Critical response[edit]
Pride has been met with critical acclaim. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes scored the film a 93% rating sampled from 120 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10. The site’s consensus reads: “Earnest without being didactic and uplifting without stooping to sentimentality, Pride is a joyous crowd-pleaser that genuinely works.”[27] Metacritic gave the film an aggregate score of 79/100 based on 36 reviews, indicating “generally favorable reviews.”[28]
Geoffrey Macnab, of The Independent, noted how Pride followed on from other British films such as The Full Monty, Brassed Off and Billy Elliot as “a story set in a Britain whose industrial base is being shattered”.[29] Macnab, who gave the film a five-star review, praised the screenplay for combining “broad comedy with subtle observation” and noted that director Matthew Warchus “relishes visual contrasts and jarring juxtapositions” throughout the film.
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