The Divine Order

Just saw this film, read a scathing review here, and felt compelled to balance the scales for this great movie. We loved it! Visually it is 100% on point: the cinematography, costumes, hair, sets, and styling. The acting was also very strong, and the script solid. Not sure what the negative reviewer watched, but we felt it was a great ensemble cast that achieved many emotional, nuanced moments. I am drawn to "period pieces" like this and found it to be quite wonderful. I will be recommending it to friends.

What a movie. Once again Marie Leuenberger proved how varialbe her acting is. Like in "Die Standesbeamtin" she got the leading role here but this time it isn't her character which got all of the focus and it is good that it isn't. This movie is about the women back then and how they were treaten by their husbands. I knew worse tbh. I was a child back then but I remember well how my father acted and compared to what they portray in this movie, the movie isn't hard enough. It is diplomatic and portrays the men with a lot of mercy. But this is good for the entertainment. For those who think equality and the right to vote for women is usual this movie is a good reminder of how things were only a couple of years ago. When people rant about feminism, let them watch this. Without all these women who faught for later generations we still would be married to ugly old men, had no right to work or vote, had no right over our lives. This movie here is only one testimony and therefor important. It is not a documentary but it's telling a lot of how things were. I loved it.

I assume that the characters in "The Divine Order" were not based on real people, as the filmmakers surely would have indicated this was the case. However, it doesn't matter too much, as the story is based on women's push for suffrage in Switzerland...the last of the industrialized nations to grant this freedom.

The film is set in a small town in Switzerland in 1971. Women's rights are pretty much unknown to this part of the world and folks just seem to accept that it's God's plan for men to be in charge. However, slowly two women manage to convince the rest of the ladies in town that their cause is just...but they really need to convince the men since they are the ones who need to vote in favor of this.

While this story could have come off as angry or anti-male, it's really not...but more about just giving the women an even break. It also accentuates how beneficial this could be for the men...without being preachy. Well worth seeing and very well written, acted and directed.

Year 1689 and a small province of today's Netherlands allowed women farmers to vote in local elections that then followed by Sweden, NJ in USA, New Zealand and many more ...even British india allowed women to vote in early 20th century... but it took years for this neutral, the richest country in the world to recognize women not as just maids, mothers and inferior to men.. although it feels more of a surface level but an insightful account of swiss women suffrage movement in 1971 ..countries like india already had a woman prime minister then...

Hopefully this summary line is not missunderstood, but here we go with what I mean, if you're interested -> don't cry, but rather act. As far as women movements go and oppression of women, there are a lot of stories that can be told (unfortunately, but let's hope we move forward and people will look at this and other movies and question a lot of things).

This is just one of them and as one other reviewer wrote, he/she felt reminded about another movement closer to the reviewers heart. Which makes sense and is what the movie aims to do. While the characters in the movie are divided and it may feel like a fight, the movie itself is rather uniting us the viewers. At least those who understand the message of course and don't feel differently. Having said that, the story is really engaging and it moves with an impeccable pace overall. More than decent and well done