Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...
Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed ...
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
Leigh's 'Hard Truths' collaborators Bleecker Street, StudioCanal, Cornerstone and Film4 are reuniting on the untitled project ...
Mike Leigh (sort of) unpacks his new film Hard Truths
The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's ...
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north London
Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...
Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry
The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly ...
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Hard Truths is magnificent - the Oscars got it wrong
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...
Hard Truths film review: Mike Leigh deserves Bafta nominations for this incredible return
Hard Truths: filmmaker Mike Leigh returns for the first time since 2018 with this incredible human drama, and it deserves ...
‘It’s rare to see a middle-aged Black woman in pain this way on screen’
‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...
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Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Is Powerful and Tormenting
Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...
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Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s graceful tragicomedy shows how irreplaceable he is in British cinema
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.