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.

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

Noted for his film style in which the commonplace is often tinged with the extraordinary, filmmaker Mike ... debut with "Bleak Moments." It would take 17 years for Leigh to step behind the camera ...

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 ...