Don’t Let the Funny Hats Fool You, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo Is Urgent, Incendiary Filmmaking
Vulture
The film recounts the 1819 bloody massacre that left 15 peaceful working-class voting-rights demonstrators dead and hundreds more injured (coined "Peterloo" by journalists who reported the atrocity in contemporary papers as a play on Waterloo.
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