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A gracious tribute to the post-war
generation of New Zealand women, Gaylene Preston does
a job worthy of her forebears in charting the early years
of social campaigner, Sonja Davies. Genevieve Picot won
the 1994 NZ Film Award for Best Actress for her portrayal
of Sonja Davies.
As
we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts
gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun
discloses,
For the people hear us singing: "Bread
and roses! Bread and roses!"
As we come marching,
marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life
closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but
give us roses!
As we come marching, marching, unnumbered
women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for
bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits
knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for -- but we fight for roses,
too!
As we come marching, marching, we
bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler -- ten that toil where
one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread
and roses!
Arts & Entertainment, New releases
By Neil Jillett
SPLENDID
PICOT SETS NEW STANDARDS.
ILLUSIONS MAGAZINE Issue 23, Winter
1994
By Helen Martin
“A
wonderful Suffrage year tribute to women of New Zealand."
ONFILM August, 1993
By Costa Botes
EXTREMES
OF ACHIEVEMENT
THE AGE 17/6/93
By Neil Jillet – Critics choice
WHO’S
AFRAID OF THE UNION JACK – BREAD AND ROSES
Director - Gaylene Preston
Producer - Robin Laing
Executive Producer - Dorothee Pinfold
Designer - Rick Kofoed
Editor - Paul Sutorius
Photography - Allen Guilford
Camera Operators - Alun Bollinger, Leon Narby
Music - John Charles
Script - Graeme Tetley and Gaylene Preston
A Preston*Laing Production in
Association with NZ on Air, Television New Zealand, 1993
Suffrage Centennial Year Trust, the New Zealand Film
Commission and Beyond Distribution.
Based on the autobiography BREAD
AND ROSES by Sonja Davies.
© Preston*Laing Productions
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