Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.
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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.
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With Help From Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Director Mike Leigh Delivers Devastating ‘Hard Truths’
After two period pictures, the venerable English director Mike Leigh returns to contemporary London with ... of ordinary lives and cantankerous individuals, such as 1988’s “High Hopes” and 1993’s ...
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Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
I wouldn’t say Mike Leigh has the look of a vindicated ... Big-screen return in the 1980s with High Hopes. A triumphant 1990s with Life Is Sweet, Naked and the Oscar-nominated, Palme d’Or ...