Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nationThe British are perverse. We fetishise our failures, even if they are essentially tangential to a…
The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth
Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly momentsPaul Greengrass has in fact already made his “uprising” film: United 93, the…