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.

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie, “Hard Truths,” suggests a remarkable, career-spanning consistency, tracing back to the stage and screen director’s 1971 big-screen debut, “Bleak Moments.” For ...

You shot to fame after your first film with Mike ... British Film director Mike Leigh, surrounded by Brenda Blethyn (R) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (L) arrives for the screening of his film ...

British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic ... one that doesn’t end with the film's brilliant final shot but — we hope ...

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 ...

So, when we see Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the middle-aged protagonist of Mike Leigh’s marvelous Hard ... though a few tell-tale shots suggest that Pansy’s anxiety has entered a new ...

as in Leigh’s earlier Secrets and Lies. Hard Truths aims instead for a televisual look, even in its opening credits, which play over an exterior shot of the suburban home where the action takes ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” invites you to spend ... Dick Pope, underlines with a shot of her fearfully huffing up a set of stairs, her exhausted face peeking through the bars on the handrail ...

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie ... Toward the end, in a scene shot in the same cemetery where “Secrets & Lies” began, the sisters intimately discuss how their upbringing impacted ...