Peterloo (2018)

Original title: Peterloo
Year: 2018
Running time: 154 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Mike Leigh
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Music: Gary Yershon
Cinematography: Dick Pope
Cast: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, David Bamber, Marion Bailey, Kieran O'Brien, Adam Long, Tim McInnerny, Leo Bill, Nico Mirallegro, Teresa Mahoney, Karl Johnson
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-United States; BFI Film Fund / Film4 / Thin Man Films. Distributed by Amazon Video
Genre: Drama | Based On A True Story. Historical. 19th Century
Synopsis / Plot: The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Awards: 2018: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

2018: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): 4 Nominations including Best Make up

Critics' reviews

"A frequently rousing experience (...) One wonders if the film has really found its optimum form (...) At once exhaustive and exhausting"

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A worthy but heavy-handed history lesson (...) The ambition is wholly laudable, the execution less so."

Stephen Dalton: The Hollywood Reporter
"The film really does feel dramatically inert (...) History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as bland docudrama."

Ben Croll: IndieWire
"While Leigh transports you back to 1819 through these rich characters, he simply tests the audience’s patience in getting to the heart of the story"

Gregory Ellwood: The Playlist
"Mike Leigh brings an overwhelming simplicity and severity to this historical epic (...) There is force, grit and, above all, a sense of purpose (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"Mike Leigh's historical epic is rewarding - if unapologetically ambitious (...) Complex, rousing and rewarding (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Robbie Collin: Telegraph
"[It] has a huge ensemble cast but that exhaustive attention to detail and fascination with the eccentricities of human behaviour which has always characterised his work is still there (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Geoffrey Macnab: The Independent
"Always demanding, often didactic, yet cumulatively rousing (...) [A] magnificently-realised film"

Fionnuala Halligan: Screendaily

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