In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
Having started his career in the theater, Mike Leigh knows to put a lot of trust in his actors. Unlike most auteurs who begin the process of building a new project by writing a script, Leigh ...
there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...
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.
It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths, starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, in an American theater. Another layer is added as audience members, mostly ...
Mike Leigh, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the greatest English filmmakers of all time. He has written, in his own way, and directed ...
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 ...
You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...
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 ...
It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths, starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, in an American theater. Another layer is added as audience members ...