In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...

In an interview with The Times, Leigh, 81, responded to those questioning whether he had the right, as a white filmmaker, to direct a project featuring an almost entirely Black cast.

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...

Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication ...

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) and her ...