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Finding the ways.(Film)(Amazing Grace)(Movie review)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20071001
Author:McDonald, Neil

AMAZING GRACE is an elegantly structured biopic of the old school--up there with The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Life of Emile Zola, although in many ways much better. It portrays twenty years in the life of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, played brilliantly by Ioan Gruffudd, culminating in the passage through the British parliament in 1807 of the bill banning the slave trade.

The scriptwriter, Steven Knight, wisely stays with the politics, depicting the horrors of the ghastly trade as they were discovered by Wilberforce and revealed by the anti-slavery ...

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