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

Written and directed by Mike Leigh. 97 minutes. Opens Friday at TIFF Lightbox and Cineplex Cinemas Varsity and VIP. STC British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his ...

“There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh project,” says Jean-Baptiste. “You get to use all of your imagination in a way that’s not usually ...

Since English filmmaker Leigh wrote and directed 2008’s wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky, which starred Sally Hawkins as the most positive woman in London, I should’ve known a movie about the most ...

By David Sexton Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, appeared almost 50 years ago, in 1971. For 40 years, working first in TV and then in film, he steadily produced his distinctive domestic ...

His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...

Michele Austin, director Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste at the BFI London Film Festival gala screening of Hard Truths (Ian West/PA) PA Wire Her new film Hard Truths sees her reunite with ...

Mike Leigh directs a scene in Vera Drake (2004) for which he won the Golden Lion at the 61st Venice International Film Festival (Photo: Momentum Pictures) “You’re only the second journalist to ...