Peterloo

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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, Laura Elphinstone, Pearce Quigley, Tom Meredith, Simona Bitmate, Robert Wilfort, Sam Troughton, Roger Sloman, Kenneth Hadley, Lizzy McInnerny, Sam MacKenzie, Neil Bell, Lisa Millett, Philip Jackson, John-Paul Hurley, Ian Mercer, Danny Kirrane, Johnny Byrom, Victor McGuire, Stephen Wight, Ryan Pope, Dorothy Atkinson, Vincent Franklin, Jeff Rawle, Eileen Davies, Philip Whitchurch, Martin Savage, Al Weaver, Fine Time Fontayne, Robert Gillespie, Jonathan Jaynes, Shaun Prendergast, Alan Williams, Dorothy Duffy, Christine Bottomley, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Kate Rutter, Joseph Kloska, Brian Fletcher, Gary Cargill, Patrick Kennedy, Guy Williams, Ben Crompton, Bryony Miller, Lee Boardman, Steve Garti, Michael Culkin, Rachel Davies, Noreen Kershaw, Adam Shaw, Bob Goody, Sam Graham, Tilly Vosburgh, David Hounslow, Steve Huison, Jeremy Todd Morehead, Paul Bown, Paul Popplewell, Moya Brady, Jane Hazlegrove, Kate O'Flynn, Gerard Kearns, John Branwell, Philip Martin Brown, Sidney Livingstone, David Walmsley, James Dryden, Bronwyn James, Polly Hemingway, Steve Cain, Sarah Crowden, Miles Richardson, Graham Seed, Tim Barker, Michael Cahill, Paul Greenwood, Paul Kynman, Alex McNally, Nick Moss, Mark Ryan, Mark Sheals, Michael Chadwick, Dan Poole, Lee Bainbridge, Ian Conningham, Andrew Jarvis, Simon Nock, Hamish Rush
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-United States; BFI Film Fund / Film4 Productions / Thin Man Films / Isobel Griffiths Limited. Distributed by Amazon Prime 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] brilliant and demanding film"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Leigh’s visceral staging, especially in the climactic moments (...) brings home the significance of a 200-year-old bloodbath that still speaks urgently to the disenfranchised (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"A worthy but heavy-handed history lesson (...) The ambition is wholly laudable, the execution less so."

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

Guy Lodge: Variety
"Even if you've never heard of the Peterloo Massacre, this picture-beautifully staged and shot, with a you-are-there urgency-will reward your patience."

Stephanie Zacharek: Time
"This is historical re-creation on an epic scale. Yet it's a down-to-earth epic, with a density of detail that's stirring in its humanity and frightening in its clarity about miscalculations on both sides."

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
"Unfortunately, Leigh’s passion for the material seems to have led him to approach it from an angle more pedagogic than artistic."

Glenn Kenny: rogerebert.com
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