Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' is a bleak and hard-to-watch picture of one woman's experience of depression, played incredibly by Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film ...

For the latter, she drew widespread critical acclaim as Vera Drake, earning her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a number of wins including the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Awards for best ...