Here is where the films of Mike Leigh, a master of human tragedy and everyday comedy, land on a scale of tragic-comic circumstances. It takes nearly the whole length of Leigh’s Hard Labour for ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films ... nothing in Leigh’s work is left to chance. “The idea that you could arrive at ‘Hard Truths’ that way is impossible ...

With a long production initially delayed by lockdown, Hard Truths is also Leigh’s return to a contemporary domestic setting after the historical dramas Mr Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018).

Over the course of an interview at the Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica, during what, for him, was a rare and emotionally-conflicting trip to the Hollywood region, the 81-year-old reflected ...

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 ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scrips behind the buzziest awards-season movies continues with Hard Truths ... writer-director Mike Leigh that reunited him with his ...

Actors on a Mike Leigh film set don’t talk about motivation, and that’s fine by “Hard Truths” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who relishes the rehearsal process on his movies. In the latest ...