mike leigh

Mike Leigh at Toronto film festival on new movie Hard Truths, his difficulty getting funds

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Mike Leigh at Toronto film festival on new movie Hard Truths, his difficulty getting funds

When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was six, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped. In his six decades making movies, the 81-year-old has made some of the most humanistic movies in cinema, many of them … Read more

A Brutally Good Marianne Jean-Baptiste Powers Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’

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A Brutally Good Marianne Jean-Baptiste Powers Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’

The house occupied by British couple Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and her husband, Curtley (David Webber), in Mike Leigh’s difficult, brilliant new film Hard Truths is as sterile as a corporate apartment. There is little decoration, the furniture is drab and uniform, the bookshelves are largely empty. The home is bright but not cheery, a space … Read more