Review: In a rewarding 'Peterloo,' Mike Leigh challenges himself — and the audience
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Apr 05, 2019
3 minutes
"Peterloo" is a paradox.
Historical and contemporary, epic and intimate, political and personal, it is both unlike anything writer-director Mike Leigh has done before and the grand culmination of his career.
Edging into David Lean territory in terms of its ambition and its two hour and 33-minute running time, "Peterloo" is equal parts rewarding and demanding, and the gradual way it unfolds allows its cumulative heartbreaking power to take us by surprise.
As his seven Oscar nominations (five for writing, two for directing) for films like "Secrets and Lies" and
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