Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

Mike Leigh has managed to consistently create fantastic movies that tap into contemporary Britain with ease, exploring class, ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly thirty years after her cast her in the exceptional Secrets & Lies for a new ...

While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

Re-entering Mike Leigh’s stomping ground in Hard Truths is both a solace and, in the best possible way, a slap in the face. It’s also an impressively funny ordeal, in that unmistakably morose ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy ... scenes,” says Leigh. “The crew comes and shoots the thing in a classical way in terms of film discipline.” Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old ... worry that she’s cratering. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste have been nominated for many awards for Hard Truths and won the New York Film Critics Circle ...

Hard Truths could have fleshed out and celebrated those lives. But reality bites. “The length, in the end, is ... a function of the low budget,” Leigh told me. [ Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in ...