Asby Remote Cinema
Event Details
Peterloo (2018)
Cert: 12A, 151 mins.
Director: Mike Leigh
Manchester 1819, and one of the defining moments in the struggle for universal suffrage.
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Synopsis
In 1819 the “Manchester Patriotic Union” organised a gathering in the city’s St. Peter’s Field district, to be addressed by the radical orator Henry Hunt. Folk gathered from all around the area; contemporary estimates put their number at 60,000. This was all too much for the city’s magistrates.
Joseph Nadin was a former cotton spinner turned highly corrupt deputy constable. On being ordered to arrest Henry Hunt, he instead ordered the cavalry to charge the crowd. The Yeomanry went in, followed by the 15th Hussars, sabres drawn, indiscriminately attacking all and sundry. It was if the battle of Waterloo, just 4 years earlier were still raging.
Mike Leigh’s depiction of the events leading up to the “Peterloo Massacre” stars Rory Kinnear (as Henry Hunt) and Maxine Peake.
Grit and brilliance in Mike Leigh’s very British massacre.
– The Guardian
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Doors open at 7pm for film screening at 7:30.
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Admission: Adults £5. Children £3. Doors open at 7pm.
