Peterloo (2018)
- 2018
- ·154 min
Een drama gebaseerd op de gebeurtenissen rond het bloedbad in Peterloo in 1819, waarbij Britse troepen schoten op een vreedzame pro-democratiebijeenkomst in Manchester.
- Acteurs
- Maxine Peake·Neil Bell·Philip Jackson·Rory Kinnear
- Geregisseerd door
- Mike Leigh
- Genre
- Drama·History
- Taal
- English
- Land
- UK
- Director
- Mike Leigh
Coming just after the Napoleonic wars, Peterloo looks at a place and time in history that is not often looked at. I suppose you could compare it to Poldark (2015), though without any swashbuckling or sassy characters, or even the boyhood world of D.
I found the ending of this film a bit unsatisfactory it fell a bit flat emotionally. Peterloo didn't lead directly to big dramatic change, in fact it lead to further repression by the government.
Superb cinematography (Dick Pope) and production design/art direction (Suzie Davies, Jane Brodie, Dan Taylor). However, the flags and banners were too sophisticated and rich for the time and place of the film.
