Mike Leigh is one of England's most well-renowned ... Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, and David Moorst in a large ensemble ...
Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
After Mr Turner and Peterloo, two sprawling historical pictures ... That is, of course, the one thing anyone who knows anything about Mike Leigh knows about Mike Leigh. He starts with no script.
In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
It's been four years since Mike Leigh's last film, the searingly righteous Peterloo, which itself followed a four-year hiatus from Mr. Turner.
In watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the film in conjunction with the rest of his career, and in a way ...
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...