It has been 28 years since Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste worked together on a project, the pair’s breakout 1996 drama “Secrets & Lies,” which earned both Leigh and Jean-Baptiste their ...

Director Mike Leigh vividly remembers the 1997 Academy Awards, where Marianne Jean-Baptiste was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in his best picture nominee “Secrets & Lies.” “She ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy of Bleecker Street A nostalgic tug got this particular film rolling. Almost three decades had elapsed since Leigh made Secrets & Lies, and Jean-Baptiste ...

British filmmaker Mike Leigh will be feted at this year’s Toronto Film Festival with the TIFF Ebert Director Award for career achievement. The announcement was made this morning by TIFF head Cameron ...

"Hard Truths" star Marianne Jean-Baptiste and director Mike Leigh, photographed in Santa Monica in January. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films.

Logline: Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste reteams with Mike Leigh for his first contemporary film since Another Year in 2010. She plays Pansy, an increasingly unmoored London housewife who ...

Mike Leigh, writer/director of the film "Hard Truths," poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Mike Leigh, ...

“Hard Truths” star David Webber said working with costar Marianne Jean-Baptiste was a “very intense and beautiful process” that was also “painful.” The pair play husband and wife Curtley and Pansy in ...

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CANNES, France (Reuters) - British director Mike Leigh's family story "Another Year" and French religious drama "Of Gods and Men" are seen as favorites to win the coveted Palme d'Or for best film at ...

More than 15 years ago, the great British director Mike Leigh made “Happy-Go-Lucky,” a miraculously lovely film about a woman of inveterate good cheer. Now he has created a character study of her ...