Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans Read moreThere are two key things one takes from Mike Leigh’s impassioned account of the events leading up to and including the Peterloo massacre in Manchester on 16 August 1819. That’s not to denigrate the other films, more to point out that perhaps there are other, bigger stories that he could have been telling. An out-of-touch elite pats itself on the bank balance, while the rest of the country grafts, hand to mouth, through enforced austerity. It’s just a pity that the film might struggle to connect with as many people as it should. And Leigh’s egalitarian insistence on voices for all means that there are a few too many of them in play.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 15:00 UTC