British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century (2014’s Mr. Turner and 2018’s Peterloo) is titled Hard Truths. It ...

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 ...

Leigh says he started work on his latest movie, Hard Truths, with one actor in mind: Marianne Jean-Baptiste.They'd last collaborated in 1996's Secrets in Lies, a drama about an adopted woman ...

Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film. Award-winning drama features a mostly Black cast ...

Renowned British filmmaker Mike Leigh believes that if the subjects of his 2018 historical drama “Peterloo” were alive to see the upcoming U.K. general elections they would be “not only ...

Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s latest is a scorchingly funny drama of depression, rage – and love Anchored by Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s incendiary performance, this portrait of a woman broken by ...

Mike Leigh’s latest comedy-drama considers what it’s like to live a life entirely of grievance. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

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 ...

Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown and Jonathan Livingstone. Written and directed by Mike Leigh. 97 minutes. Opens Friday at ...