film April 23, 2019 Don’t Let the Funny Hats Fool You, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo Is Urgent, Incendiary Filmmaking Emily Yoshida New York Magazine 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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