“People are saying this is ‘a film about mental health’ – a ‘post-Covid film’,” huffs Mike Leigh as he picks ... I have made films and stage plays about a wide variety of different ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste quickly realised that being too peppy during rehearsals for Hard Truths was never going to work.

Mike Leigh has written 5 shows including Ecstasy (Playwright), Goose-pimples (Playwright), Smelling a Rat (Playwright), Abigail's Party (Playwright), Two Thousand Years (Author). What awards has ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films ... but their fourth collaboration overall (they’ve also done a play and a film score together). For “Hard Truths,” the director ...

The uncomfortable genius of Mike Leigh. In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society. A spring morning on a quiet street in suburban North London.

From early TV comedy plays like Abigail's Party and Nuts in ... director of Anora, and a Mike Leigh fan. “I’m not being disparaging of Ken Loach, but Mike Leigh’s is a very objective and ...

‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh’s impressive but imperfect political history Peterloo. As in his other period ...

Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM Andreas Wiseman Fri, January 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM UTC ...

Mike Leigh has pushed back against “offensive and racist” criticisms of his latest film, Hard Truths. The film, a humanist drama about a woman with depression (Marianne Jean-Baptiste ...

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943 ... His films and stage plays, according to the critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison ...