While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...

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.

Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...

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 ...

Mike Leigh: Well, it's a difficult question ... and then showing it to the crew maybe in the afternoon, and then it's shot. We always get home in time for dinner. MF: Marianne, can you talk ...

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 ...

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 ...