Director/writer Amma Asante is a force to behold in the UK, with A United Kingdom now marking her follow-up to the critically acclaimed period drama Belle.
A United Kingdom hits UK cinemas 25 November.
Asante’s film is a masterwork of sweeping romanticism, whilst still engaging fully in the racial politics of the time and Britain’s complicity in the surrounding historical events.
Expect this film to make its mark in a big way come BAFTA-time, with David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike delivering stand out performances as two lovers whose political and social positions turned their marriage into a crisis of international proportions.