Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

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

From left, David Webber, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Tuwaine Barrett in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh. (Creativity Media/Film Four/Zuma Press/TNS) It takes a moment to realize that you ...

In watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the film in conjunction with the rest of his career, and in a way ...

By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Leigh’s films have ... why he was very disturbed when Hard Truths was rejected by the Cannes, Venice and Telluride film festivals, and what it ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly ...

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker ... As is customary with Leigh, the new film will shoot as “Untitled 2025.” ...

‘Hard Truths’ sees Leigh in humane ... into a rehearsal room where they start to work out the beats of the film. Leigh keeps his department heads abreast of any developments.

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018 ...

Credits: Directed by Mike ... film by the legendary Leigh, and in fact, there is a specific answer to that question. But first, the latest film from the 81-year-old British auteur is “Hard ...