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- Most historians agree Peterloo was a clear-cut example of class war against the poor, but Leigh lays the message down in chokingly thick layers, reducing complex events to a monochrome clash of good and evil with scant dramatic texture. As an overall viewing experience, Peterloo is not without its pleasures.
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Sep 6, 2018 · Peterloo is purest Mike Leigh in the best sense: class-conscious, beautifully acted and filmed and a call for social change. It is also, despite that kinetic battle scene, a film of ideas and...
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Apr 5, 2019 · Peterloo. Amazon Prime. 154 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2019. Glenn Kenny. April 5, 2019. 3 min read. In St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, in 1819, an assembly of protesters urging parliamentary reform and workers’ rights was set upon by the British cavalry, who killed 18 and wounded nearly 1,000.
Peterloo. In 1819 a cavalry charge on a peaceful protest at St. Peter's Field in Manchester, England, results in the Peterloo Massacre. Watch Peterloo with a subscription on Prime Video.
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Apr 4, 2019 · The new film about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is both horrifying and deeply moving. Read TIME's review.
Film Review: ‘Peterloo’. Mike Leigh's sprawling portrayal of the class war building to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre is narratively stuffy but politically rousing. By Guy Lodge. Simon Mein ...
Nov 1, 2018 · Peterloo review: Mike Leigh's period drama has immediacy and a sense of anger. It will ensure that the bloody events in St Peter’s Fields nearly 200 years ago are put back on the radar of...
Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
