Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. Thank you. All too often in movies, 18th century britain is solely depicted in the most gentile of term, jane austen meets masterpiece theater. But a new film titled belle is taking a very different approach, showing how all that wealth and elegance were paid for by the slave trade. Belle is directed by amma asante who won the coveted b fachlt attachment award for the most promising newcomer for her first film a way of life, back in 2005. It took almost a decade, though, for her to find another film that she wanted to make. Lets take a look at a scene from belle which has just opened in limited release. We are to finally come out . But why . You understand the ways of the world for a female. Elizabeth has no income. When all this has gone to her father, there will be nothing left for her. And any gentleman of good breeding would be unlikely to form a serious attachment and a man without would lower her position in
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